City of Joel

'Local Heroes' combines exhaustive research, rare archival film footage, fascinating still photography and revealing original interviews to bring view...

There isn't much left of the once-grand Catskill Mountain House. The lavish resort hotel was perched on a precarious ledge in Greene County for over a...

RAILS TO THE CATSKILLS is a history of the dynamic railroad industry in the Catskills of New York State. Catskill railroads have roots in the canals o...

In the Gilded Age and beyond, high fashion decreed that violets were the flower of choice for Valentine's Day, Easter, and a fragrant corsage. At its...

A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, is the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community. In an hist...

A group of young skateboarders find direction in their lives when they move to New York and start a pickle business.

The last surviving Native Americans on Long Island are the focus of The Lost Spirits. The film chronicles their struggles as an indigenous people to m...

Take a look behind the curtain to see the vast history and recent renovation of one of Rochester, New York's most famous landmarks. Architects, theate...

An in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.

Stamford Hill in North London is home to a community of 30,000 Hasidic Jews. Aiming to preserve a way of life they had in eighteenth century Poland an...

Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (1698-1760),known as the Ba'al Shem Tov ("Master of the Good Name"),is one of the most beloved and celebrated, yet elusive,...