Harlem New York City Movies
- 1970
HARLEM FRAGMENTS
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Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural...
- 1941
Murder on Lenox Avenue
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Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader...
- 1934
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
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This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington)...
- 1984
The Long Night of Lady Day
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This acclaimed documentary depicts the sad life of the greatest of all jazz singers, Billie Holiday, a life engraved with personal tragedy and...
- 1942
Take My Life
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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,...
- 2018
Congo Cabaret
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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...
- 1991
Don Giovanni
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This production was originally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, The International Performing Arts Festival of the State University of New...
- 2008
James Brown Live At The Apollo '68
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This was one of a series of concerts James Brown gave at the Apollo in Harlem in March 1968. This performance was broadcast on television as James...
- 1979
Harlem Nocturne
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A French animated short film delves into a family living in Harlem's black ghetto, where a girl faces the choice between freedom and death. Features...
- 2004
The Last of the First
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The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band during its sunset years: 87-year-old Al Casey, who had worked closely with Fats Waller throughout the 1930s; guitarist...
- 1970
Don't Take Harlem
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“Don’t Take Harlem is my personal love letter to Harlem. This project is dear to me because it allowed me to understand my hometown and...
- 1970
Uncommon Images: The Harlem of James VanDerZee
Uncommon Images: The Harlem of James VanDerZee01970HD
A 1977 film portrait of the 90-year-old photographer.
- 1978
Drugs In America
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Documentary on drug use in America