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.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

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

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

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

Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until...

Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett in Ne...
A collection of personal anecdotes from those who have navigated through a tumultuous year in Americ...

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

Acclaimed stand up comic Clay Horwitz embarks on a culinary adventure of New York City, bringing the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreograp...

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

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

Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of...