More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony.

An original and visionary work, this cathartic film links the present with the ancestral past.

An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.

Documents how Jamaica's Sistren Collective theatre uses imporvisation and theatre as a consciousness raising tool among rural and urban working women in Jamaica.

Interviews and performances by Puerto Rican musicians in New York illustrate how traditional music has served as mode of resistance of cultural domination.

This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Documentary on Female Breakdancers

A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard.

A rich overview of the development of Afro-Cuban music in the United States, featuring interviews with Mario Bauza and Dizzie Gillespie.

AFRO-PUNK, the movie that sparked the movement!

This humorous and comedic documentary, brings the laughs and dreams of four Indian women cabaret performers while posing the questions: What is comedy and who defines it? Is it culturally specific, or can anyone enjoy the joke? Does comedy always have to come from a white perspective in Britain to be taken seriously?

Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male-dominated world of Hip-Hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops.

Shot in Philadelphia, this documentary features the work of female Hip-Hop artists Lady B, Schoolly D, Rennie Harris, Bahamadia, and Ursula Rucker.

Peter Minshall, Trinidad Carnival Artist.

Art, labor, and family blend in this intimate film about Latina performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better known as ‘La Bruja’.

In CLAIMING OUR VOICE, female, immigrant domestic workers bring their stories of survival, empowerment and activism to center stage.

A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity

A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an intimate journey into the life and music of Asian American Movement troubadour Chris Iijima.

The 20-year journey of an unlikely band of activists who take an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn.

A treasure trove of rescued tapes revives the golden age of reggae music and reveals the fascinating story behind one of Jamaica’s most legendary recording studios, Randy’s Studio 17.

Chronicles the evolution of popular Garifuna music from Belize and explores the role of the music in Belize's cultural awakening.

NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC delves deep into the making of Nas’ 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation.

This documentary on South African Hip-Hop artist Mr. Devious presents his hardcore style of rapping about ghetto life in Cape Flats, and his untimely murder.

Shot in Accra, Ghana, this documentary follows the birth of Hiplife music, a mix of various African musical forms and American Hip-Hop.

KNOW YOUR ENEMY critiques the mass media's bias against rap music and culture.

Ghana’s Hip-Hop superstar Reggie Rockstone travels to New York, where he experiences the unexpected struggles and pleasures of life as an anonymous African on the fringes of an American city.

A look at the work of Cuban Hip-Hop artists, this documentary includes footage of their daily lives, perfomances at the Cuban Hip-Hop festival, and recording sessions in New York City.

This film documents the creation of Morocco’s first-ever Hip-Hop festival and the work of DJ Key, female rapper Fati, and rap group H-Kayne.

Young Turkish rappers, DJs, break-dancers, and graffiti artists creatively blend foreign cultural influences with their local cultural values and traditions.

Independent Hip-Hop artists from large and small cities talk about their creative work and their increasingly widening influence in Chinese society.

Through Hip-Hop music and Afro-Brazilian dance, musician Anderson Sá rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.

A videotape of a live performance--a mythopoetic rendering of the original encounters between African, Indigenous and European peoples in the present day "border regions".

From the ashes of four decades of war, AIDS and corruption in Uganda, The Bataka Squad artists, Babaluku and Saba Saba, rise to forge a revolutionary path using music.

This film explores the transformative role of Hip-Hop in politics in Senegal during the 2007 presidential election campaign.

COLOR SCHEMES uses the cycles of a generic laundromat washing machine as a metaphor to tackle misconceptions about racial assimilation.

Calypso like you’ve never heard before.

The most famous calypso artists invite you to return to the roots of Caribbean music.

The Hip-Hop Christian movement has been uplifting youth by delivering positive religious messages that are not about drugs, sex, or hate but of hope and peace.

Interviews with eleven "Asian Boys" are intercut with images of "fish out of water" in Chinatown and footage from the Miss Universe contest in the Philippines to reveal their underlying ideas about race and identity.

Vietnamese American blind musician Nguyen Duc Dat faces oppression on many levels: language and cultural differences, immigrant and lower income status, and societal misunderstanding and alienation.

Hip-Hop activists give more than their talent when they come face to face with the justice system in Ferguson, Missouri.

The power of visualizing the meaning of the words “Black & White”.