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 morning of September 11, 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in and around New York Cit...

With the holidays approaching, a young party planner arranges a special Christmas party for a New Yo...

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of...

NYC Graffiti Documentary "Kings Destroy" straight from the boogie down Bronx and right into your liv...

Documentary on New York Graffiti featuring art by Cliff, Phase 2, Comet, Blade, IN, Billy167, LSD OM...

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Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

On October 1, 2013, the elusive street artist Banksy launched a month-long residency in New York, an...

A two disc amalgam of the final performances of 2001's Madison Square Gardens performances by one of...

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a c...

In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers ...

A documentary about Pat the Cat and other roller disco skaters who want to make it big doing what th...

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

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village...

Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It wa...

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

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to tak...

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

In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It i...

Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a g...