Ellis Island, une histoire du rêve Américain

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process o...

The film is a story of immigration and identity after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Mihajlo Jevtic. It f...

Lou Reed was wise to chronicle a concert by his early-'80s band, featuring lead guitarist Robert Quine and bassist Fernando Saunders. Reed had used th...

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets and pokey transportation system were a source of co...

An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who formed...

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

Documentary exploring the effect of mass immigration on the dwindling white community of the East End, from the perspective of those who remain and th...

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones." Scorsese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at th...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he b...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

A depiction of New York’s subway as an absurd obstacle course – revealing a system that shuts many out of a city in motion.

When Ader Ismail fled from Somalia to Sweden, she thought it would not take long for her five children to join her. But the years go by and the childr...

Lloyd Daniels was one of the most gifted basketball players ever to emerge from New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1967 and grew up in the poor...