The documentary surveys Puerto Rican history, the Young Lords' activities and philosophy, the torturous end of the organization and its inspiring legacy.

Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Rican communities in New York City began to address these injustices by using direct action.

In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city.

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

MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student-led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960s.

A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM explores the role of Black families in American society.

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 captures the rich legacy of ancient African religions practiced in the United States.

During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and through exit doors, refusing to pay the fare.

The film shows how community-run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other.

Every day 500,000 people from 117 different countries ride a subway that runs from Flushing to Times Square, going through Queens, the most culturally diverse region in the United States.

IF YOU COULD WALK IN MY SHOES documents the struggle of an Ecuadorian-American family as they transforms their lives from workers to business owners.

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

In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three New York City school districts to become part of an experiment in community-run education.

When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run the clinic themselves.

In April 1970, telecom workers from multiple unions across New York City engaged in a wildcat strike to secure better pay and improve working conditions.

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.

Dance artists Sita Frederick, Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, and Marion Ramirez collaborate to create a performance work that explores Caribbean and Latina-American experiences through dance.

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

A series of short videos made by Mandarin-speaking seniors living in Flushing, Queens, during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The videos showcase their filmmaking abilities and their strength and willingness to share their fears and sorrows during the health crisis.

A coming-of-age story about the friendship between two young Black girls growing up in 1957 Harlem, Phyllisia Cathy from a newly arrived, upwardly mobile Caribbean family, and Edith Jackson, Harlem-born and raised.

A powerful document of a community vigil for Islan Nettles, a Transgender Womyn of Color who was beaten to death in 2013.

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 shocking exposé of how a group of ordinary citizens, passionate about the future of their legendary neighborhood, are systematically shut out of the city’s decision-making process.

On a crumbling sidewalk in the heart of Spanish Harlem, a small but impassioned group of women are fighting for their community.

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

IN BED WITH A MOSQUITO is an intimate portrait of activism and aging in New York City.

A series of three short documentary films created by a group of immigrant and first generation women.

A look at the complexities of migration, displacement, economic empowerment, and the pursuit of the elusive "American dream" within New York's growing South Asian communities.

A short on the lives and thoughts of people working on the streets of New York City and their relation to the political process during the 2004 presidential election.

New updated version includes footage of New York State Governor David Paterson signing the 2010 Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.

Fifth-generation shopkeepers Mei Lum and Gary Lum speak to how their work exists as everyday resistance to gentrification and creates sustained community in the heart of New York City.

Floristas are immigrant flower vendors who scratch out a living by hawking their wares on the streets of New York City.

A young woman moves to New York City from the Midwest to develop her writing. Distracted from her new creative lifestyle, she is soon challenged by her best friend to work harder to foster her own growth as an artist.

A series of 16 shorts on how NYC communities of color view their "State of America" and what they're doing to make changes.

WHATEVER IT TAKES follows the amazing first year of a cutting-edge public high school in NYC’s South Bronx.

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.

Gio misses the #6 train which too frequently bypasses his Spanish Harlem stop. One missed train means public humiliation by his teacher, suspension from school, and harassment by a cop.

After the attacks on September 11th, 2001, new laws ostensibly geared towards domestic security will affect various communities in the United States and throughout the world.