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.

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

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...

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...

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

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

The 1999 NBA Finals was the championship round of the shortened 1998–99 NBA season or the 1999 seaso...

A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vi...

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

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

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...

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

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

Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti...

A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with addit...

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her jo...