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.

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

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

This documentary offers an intimate look at the life and legacy of American abstract expressionist F...

In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers ...

Jenna Hudson and Kevin Jenner are polar opposites working for the same online publication in New Yor...

Against the backdrop of President Trump's much-trumpeted wall, Reginald D. Hunter takes a 2,000-mile...

A box found in an abandoned storage unit unearths a time capsule of correspondences from a forgotten...

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

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...

John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises t...

Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both ...

In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating patte...

In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It i...

At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone...

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end...

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfri...

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

A character study of Puerto Rican struggling rapper Negro Gonzalez, a portrait of his island, a beau...