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.

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

When the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco plucks young Shane from the sea of fa...
The shape-shifting and enigmatic hip hop artist Kool Keith has managed to surprise, shock, and enrag...

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

Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It wa...

Acclaimed stand up comic Clay Horwitz embarks on a culinary adventure of New York City, bringing the...

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

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and sh...

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

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

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

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York t...

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

Watching My Name Go By is a 1976 BBC documentary on the birth of graffiti in New York City, and the ...

From the sweaty basement bars of 70s New York to the glittering peak of the global charts, how disco...

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the R...

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

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