Dope Sick Love

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...

An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with f...

This film describes the 1960s drug culture. Addicts discuss their experiences in the United States and in Vietnam. Dr. Stanley Yolles, director of the...

This film points out the risks of being a heroin addict. Explains that addicts cannot be identified solely with one particular socio-economic level an...

Short documentary on underground rap culture in New York City.

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

Explores the issues junior high and high schools were facing surrounding teen drug use. Looks at several very integrated public schools and programs b...

The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee t...

The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating sublim...

The Police Tapes is a 1977 documentary about a New York City police precinct in the South Bronx. The original ran ninety minutes and was produced for...

The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord. Follow his life story from his rough childhood t...

The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lov...

Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profession.

A filmed sequence dramatizes the problems addressed in the program: the story of a working mother addicted to barbiturates initially prescribed by her...

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...