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.

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

Watching My Name Go By is a 1976 BBC documentary on the birth of graffiti in New York City, and the ...
Music documentary about Billo Frómeta by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.

A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a c...

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

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

A documentary about Pat the Cat and other roller disco skaters who want to make it big doing what th...
This experimental short traces the lifespan of the graffiti and murals present at the occupation of ...
The shape-shifting and enigmatic hip hop artist Kool Keith has managed to surprise, shock, and enrag...

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

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

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...

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

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is f...

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblet...

An incredible historic document showcasing the roots of Old School Hip Hop movement with all its dis...

Martin Scorsese’s electrifying concert documentary captures The Rolling Stones live at New York’s Be...