Harlem New York City Movies

  • 1994
    High School II

    High School II

    High School II

    6.2781994HD

    HIGH SCHOOL II is a film about Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a successful alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem, 85-95%...

    High School II
  • 1937
    Harlem on the Prairie

    Harlem on the Prairie

    Harlem on the Prairie

    51937HD

    A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the...

    Harlem on the Prairie
  • 1934
    Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

    Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

    Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

    6.5711934HD

    This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington)...

    Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
  • 1939
    Moon Over Harlem

    Moon Over Harlem

    Moon Over Harlem

    3.7141939HD

    Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta...

    Moon Over Harlem
  • 1942
    Take My Life

    Take My Life

    Take My Life

    01942HD

    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,...

    Take My Life
  • 1972
    Black Rodeo

    Black Rodeo

    Black Rodeo

    01972HD

    Documentary about a rodeo that takes place, for the most part, in Harlem.

    Black Rodeo
  • 1970
    Uncommon Images: The Harlem of James VanDerZee

    Uncommon Images: The Harlem of James VanDerZee

    Uncommon Images: The Harlem of James VanDerZee

    01970HD

    A 1977 film portrait of the 90-year-old photographer.

    Uncommon Images: The Harlem of James VanDerZee
  • 1970
    HARLEM FRAGMENTS

    HARLEM FRAGMENTS

    HARLEM FRAGMENTS

    101970HD

    Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural...

    HARLEM FRAGMENTS
  • 2004
    The Last of the First

    The Last of the First

    The Last of the First

    02004HD

    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...

    The Last of the First
  • 1979
    Harlem Nocturne

    Harlem Nocturne

    Harlem Nocturne

    01979HD

    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...

    Harlem Nocturne
  • 1970
    Don't Take Harlem

    Don't Take Harlem

    Don't Take Harlem

    01970HD

    “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...

    Don't Take Harlem
  • 1978
    Drugs In America

    Drugs In America

    Drugs In America

    01978HD

    Documentary on drug use in America

    Drugs In America