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

Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years h...

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

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...

Students flooded Columbia University’s lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pre...

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

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

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

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

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

Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett in Ne...

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

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...

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

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

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

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