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.

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

Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of H...
The picture brings interviews with the participants of the 1st São Paulo Jazz Festival that occurred...

Through archival footage Nicholson tells the story of the real Warriors that walked the streets of N...

First film of Juan José Ponce’s trilogy about Federico García Lorca. Lunas de Nueva York looks back ...

Backed by a full band and a ready wit, actor Ben Platt opens up a very personal songbook onstage -- ...

A Mondo documentary focused on the 1960's American lifestyle, consumerism, religion, adversity, and ...
"Freedom" is an acoustic live performance by singer-songwriter Neil Young that was released on video...

With The Marshall Project and the Pulitzer Center, a look at one immigrant mother’s struggle to keep...

Richard Hambleton was a founder of the street art movement before succumbing to drugs and homelessne...

John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime famil...

A recently jilted dancer follows her ex-boyfriend to his new home, where she insinuates herself into...

In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art mo...

Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews ...

Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this documentary tells the story of how a new generation kickstart...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing p...

Shot entirely from an apartment window during the first month of New York City’s “Shelter in Place” ...

Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive ...

Documentary where rich social history frames a spirited debate on the development of water infrastru...