On October 1, 2013, the elusive street artist Banksy launched a month-long residency in New York, an art show he called Better Out Than In. As one new work of art was presented each day in a secret location, a group of fans, called “Banksy Hunters,” took to the streets and blew up social media.

Rifkin on Rifkin: Private Confessions of a Serial Killer

2021

English

6.5

♡ 3

Action

Crime

Documentary

Mark Marabella Director

Jeffrey Ayars as Joel Rifkin

Robert Mladinich as Self - Author

Freddie Reiter as Self - Former Rifkin Neighbor & Classmate Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self - Mayor of New York City

Through newly revealed interviews from Attica Correctional Facility, New York's most prolific serial killer, Joel Rifkin, reveals exclusive insights into the mind of a monster.

Wojnarowicz

2020

English

7.6

♡ 4

97%

Chris McKim Director

Nancy Reagan as Self

Fran Lebowitz as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

David Wojnarowicz as Self

A collage-like, incisive look at the life of writer, painter and thinker David Wojnarowicz, whose powerful, unapologetic way of seeing the world gave voice to queer rights at a critical time in US history.

Such Good Friends

1971

English

6.0

♡ 17

35%

Otto Preminger Director

William Redfield as Barney

Salome Jens as Blood Donor at Hospital Ed Koch

Ed Koch as First Taxi Driver

Laurence Luckinbill as Richard

Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations.

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality

2019

English

8.3

♡ 1

black lives matter

criminal justice

criminal justice system

Documentary

incarceration

justice

prison industrial complex

Peter W. Kunhardt Director

Jesse Jackson as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Janet Maull-Martin as Self

An intimate portrait of Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who for more than three decades has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.

American Swing

2008

English

6.2

♡ 5

55%

Jon Hart Director

Ronald Reagan as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Melvin Van Peebles as Self

Irwin Corey as Self

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

How to Survive a Plague

2012

English

7.6

♡ 6

98%

David France Director

Bill Clinton as Himself Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Himself

Charlie Rose as Himself

Ross Perot as Himself

A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.

Loudmouth

2022

English

5.1

67%

50%

Action

Documentary

Josh Alexander Director

Tom Brokaw as Self

Al Sharpton as Self

Jesse Jackson as Self - Civil Rights Activist / Baptist Minister Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self - Mayor of New York City

Josh Alexander’s Loudmouth documents the winding road that is Al Sharpton’s life story as an iconic activist and spiritual leader.

Jerry Before Seinfeld

2017

English

7.0

♡ 3

94%

Michael Bonfiglio Director

Jay Leno as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Richard Pryor as Self

Jerry Seinfeld as Self

Jerry Seinfeld returns to the club that gave him his start in the 1970s, mixing iconic jokes with stories from his childhood and early days in comedy.

City Hall

1996

English

6.2

♡ 38

60%

Harold Becker Director

Mel Winkler as Det. Albert Holly

Bill Farmer as Homer Simpson

Al Pacino as Mayor John Pappas Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Newscaster

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

Style Wars

1983

English

8.0

♡ 6

80%

Tony Silver Director Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Gene Anthony Ray as Self

Irene Cara as Self

Michael Kaves as Self

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Free to Run

2016

English

7.2

♡ 3

57%

Pierre Morath Director Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self - Mayor of New York City

Michael Bloomberg as Self - Mayor of New York City

Tom Brokaw as Self - NBC News Journalist

John Chancellor as Self - NBC News Journalist

Free to Run tells the amazing story of the running movement over the past five decades, the struggle for the right to run - especially for women – against conservative Federations, the explosion of grass roots road races and marathons, until the boom of running as a vast business enterprise.

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

2020

English

7.3

♡ 2

86%

71%

Action

brooklyn, new york city

Muta'Ali Muhammad Director

Spike Lee as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Al Sharpton as Self - Interviewee

Diane Hawkins as Self - Yusuf's mother

The 30-year legacy of the murder of black teenager Yusuf Hawkins by a group of young white men in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, as his family and friends reflect on the tragedy and the subsequent fight for justice that inspired and divided New York City.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2022

English

7.5

♡ 9

95%

Laura Poitras Director Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

David Wojnarowicz as Self

Leonard Bernstein as Self - Conductor

John Waters as Self - Filmmaker

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

13th

2016

English

8.2

♡ 10

97%

Ava DuVernay Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Nancy Reagan as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

The Central Park Five

2012

English

7.7

♡ 4

92%

Ken Burns Director

Donald Trump as Self

Al Sharpton as Self

Rudy Giuliani as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self - Former Mayor, New York

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

2016

English

7.5

♡ 2

97%

portrait of an artist

Fenton Bailey Director

Patti Smith as Self

Brooke Shields as Self

Fran Lebowitz as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most controversial photographer of the twentieth century. Openly gay, Mapplethorpe took images of male sex, nudity, and fetish to extremes that resulted in his work still being labelled by some as pornography masquerading as art. But less talked about are the more serene, yet striking portraits of flowers, sculptures, and perfectly framed human forms that are equally pioneering and powerful.

Where's My Roy Cohn?

2019

English

7.0

♡ 7

87%

manipulative relationship

usa politics

Matt Tyrnauer Director

Harry S. Truman as Himself

Donald Trump as Himself

Nancy Reagan as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump. This thriller-like exposé connects the dots, revealing how a deeply troubled master manipulator shaped our current American nightmare.

Blondie's New York and the Making of Parallel Lines

2014

English

7.1

♡ 3

Alan Ravenscroft Director

Kim Cattrall as Narrator

Chris Stein as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Bob Gruen as Self

The story behind Blondie's album Parallel Lines, which sold 16 million copies and captured the spirit of 1970s New York at a time of poverty, crime and an exploding artistic life.

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Banksy Does New York

Rifkin on Rifkin: Private Confessions of a Serial Killer

Wojnarowicz

Such Good Friends

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality

American Swing

How to Survive a Plague

Loudmouth

Jerry Before Seinfeld

City Hall

Style Wars

Free to Run

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

13th

The Central Park Five

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Where's My Roy Cohn?

Blondie's New York and the Making of Parallel Lines