When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, neighborhoods plagued by poverty, drugs and crime, Hispanic identity was reborn and strengthened, thanks to a syncretic and intentionally popular music that eventually conquered the entire city.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him b...

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

Martin Scorsese’s electrifying concert documentary captures The Rolling Stones live at New York’s Be...

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession...

An analysis of the impact on the United States Latino community of immigration policies promoted by ...

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village...

Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hi...

Recently widowed after 41 years of marriage, Frank Walsh meets the outgoing Florence, sparking joy b...

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreograp...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

New York cab and black car drivers are facing economic and emotional hardship in a city dominated by...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...

One neighborhood in New York City, March 2020: the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, the federal gov...

Stories from survivors frame this documentary detailing the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwe...