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...

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

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

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

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

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

In his second acoustic music special, acclaimed pianist Arthur Hanlon once again joins forces with a...
A collection of personal anecdotes from those who have navigated through a tumultuous year in Americ...

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

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...

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

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

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

Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until...

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

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about ...

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