new york (n.y.)

An analysis of the black American cultural renaissance of the 1920s. Covers political figures, painters and sculptors, jazzmen and musical comedy.

James VanDerZee, first great African-American photographer whose career spanned eighty years, covered the wars in New York's Harlem.

Thirteen-year-old Jed spends Christmas break working on a school project filming a documentary about his East Village, New York City, neighborhood, where he is continually reminded of his older brother, Zeke, a promising poet who died the summer before.

Story of the Mafia figure known as Sammy the Bull who after rising to the position of underboss in the Gambino family of the Cosa Nostra, changed sides and testified against John Gotti and many other New York organized crime figures.