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.

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

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

Apple Juice is an classic skateboarding documentary shot by SKATE NYC locals from the late 80’s earl...

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

1969, New York City, 3 teams won World Championships, the Jets, the Mets and the Knicks.

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...

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

Stories from survivors frame this documentary detailing the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwe...

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
Explores the true story of a courageous group of New York City firemen who experienced the worst dis...

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

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

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of...

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

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

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

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

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted ...

Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exci...