New York City Movies

The best known, "Weegee's New York" (1948),presents a surprisingly lyrical view of the city without a hint of crime or murder. Already this film give...

First film of Juan José Ponce’s trilogy about Federico García Lorca. Lunas de Nueva York looks back on Federico’s trip to New York in 1929, an essenti...

Scott Carthy’s debut film ‘Litefeet’ documents the recently criminalised art of subway dancing. The footage is of one of NYC’s most prolific dance gro...

"Biosolids have become a financial asset worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but it's still possible that we'll go back to dumping our waste in the...

Central Park: The People’s Place is a loving portrait of New York’s collective backyard. It is a biography of a living place that continues to evolve...

Filmed in New York's Garment District, Fashion Avenue uses mirrors to reflect something more beautiful than the world of glamour: the everyday lives o...

New York. In the Brooklyn Bridge Park, Max hears a baby laughing. Nobody is around. It comes from a garbage can.

Continuous video loop of Hudson Yards.

Short film, shown with The Last of the Worthingtons. In color.

There are a million stories to be told about New York City. This one is about the outlaw art form called Graffiti (bombing) where your name and the cr...

All About New York is a 1962 documentary directed by Paul Cohen and produced by Owen Murphy, chronicling the history and development of New York City.

The Sidewalks of New York is a documentary film that begins with the tale of the famous song of the same name, and builds every moment toward the fasc...

“Don’t Take Harlem is my personal love letter to Harlem. This project is dear to me because it allowed me to understand my hometown and the stories th...

On February 4, 1999, 19 of the 41 shots fired in 10 seconds by 4 NYPD Street Crimes Unit cops hit Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo as he stood in the v...

NEW YORK SCHERZO is a feature documentary that follows the lives of three diverse classically trained musicians as they try to make it in New York Cit...

BRAVE NEW YORK is a free-form documentary that loosely chronicles the last twelve years of intense change in the East Village "hood." From the reopeni...

At the forefront of the punk music scene since the 1970s, CBGB, located in Manhattan's Lower East Side, is still revered as one of the most influentia...

A documentary about the sex industry around 8th Avenue and 42nd Street.