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.

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

Apple Juice is an classic skateboarding documentary shot by SKATE NYC locals from the late 80’s earl...

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

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted ...

Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exci...

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...

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

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

Dubbed New York's "Queen of the Night," proto–club kid Susanne Bartsch has been throwing unforgettab...

Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier travel down memory lane to see what life was like back in the 192...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on...

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets ha...

Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a succe...

In this Concert he focuses on the star and most important defender of bachata, the Dominican singer ...

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York a...

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

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...

Director Drew Stone’s The New York Hardcore Chronicles Film is an incredible journey through the com...