Harlem New York City Movies

A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to r...

HIGH SCHOOL II is a film about Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS),a successful alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem, 85-95% o...

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 H...

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Mar...

Kalani (Joi Campbell),is a teenager living in Harlem with her older brother Jacob, and her younger sister, Bebe, while her mother struggles to make e...

A girls’ basketball coach is fighting through a heroin addiction while mentoring a 12-year-old street kid adopted by Will and his wife.

"The Team that Changed the World," investigates the Globetrotters' impact socially and culturally, as well as their lasting effect on the NBA. Featuri...

A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime.

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

A well-meaning doctor lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn that the kids are members of a tough Harlem gang, t...

Some of the world's best jazz, R & B, hip-hop, rap, gospel and Latin musicians perform classic and modern songs in this 2004 benefit show celebrat...

Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural disa...

Flea was a basketball player, happy with his subtle hustle, until a Dominican connect introduced him to a new way to spread the work and make money.

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. Aft...

Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois)...

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) o...

Harlem, 1926. A “sweetman” Zeddy, living off a woman, brings a country girl he’s trying to impress to a gay-owned cabaret. There he meets a friend, Ja...

This production was originally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, The International Performing Arts Festival of the State University of New Y...

Documentary on drug use in America