Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, and nothing is ever the same for anyone in the Houseman family.
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
Flowerpower-æraen kulminerede i 1969 med rockfestivalen Woodstock, hvor en million amerikanere valfartede til en mark uden for New York City for at smide tøjet, droppe syre og nyde den sidste rest af uskyld inden 70'ernes nedtur. Den pæne, unge Elliot Tiber drages ind i planlægningen, da hans forældres motel omdannes til hippie-hovedkvarter. Oplevelsen bliver et skælsættende vendepunkt i hans liv.
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.
Buddy er en komiker, der ikke længere kan få folk til at le. Alt mislykkes. Hans liv er ganske enkelt....... mislykket. I fen årtier kæmper han for at nå toppen. Vi følger ham fra de tidlige år, hvor han optræder for sin familie til han når berømmelsen og bliver stjerne i sit eget TV-show og frem til nedturen, hvor kan må optræde på alderdomshjem.
Hele livet igennem er humoren hans måde at forsvare sig på. Med sin vakse tunge går han til angreb mod publikum og mødes med klapsalver. Men han gør det også mod sin familie og mådes med tårer.
Og nu stilles han overfor sit livs valg: Skal han placere sin famillie i rampelyset? Eller har hans liv været spildt....... Og må han, indse at han er gået glip af hele pointen?
A recently jilted dancer follows her ex-boyfriend to his new home, where she insinuates herself into his new relationship.
Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there, it’s clear that (1) he’s the only black guy, and (2) it’s going to be a weekend of heavy drinking. Although Tyler is welcomed, he can’t help but feel uneasy in “Whitesville.” The combination of all the testosterone and alcohol starts to get out of hand, and Tyler’s precarious situation starts to feel like a nightmare.
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
Four friends leave NYC for Catskill Park and hear something unearthly during their camping trip.
A pair of scavengers discover something strange after wandering onto the property of a mysterious technician.
At its peak, one million New York Jews spent their summers in the Borscht Belt, the birthplace of Jewish-American iconoclastic humor. This film shows how these Catskills communities were run by women, and how class divisions were reflected in the resort hotels: upwardly-mobile hotel guests were entertained by a who's-who of talent, while in the bungalows, do-it-yourself burlesque and vaudeville reigned among the blue-collar families. This film is happy, humane, ironic, and, finally, bittersweet, as we see that today's Jews no longer share the tastes or aspirations of their parents.
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 century. During its 19th-century heyday, the hotel embodied the peak of luxury for a generation of the rich and famous. But like many resort hotels of the Catskills' glittering past, the Mountain House fell into disuse in the 20th century and was finally destroyed by the state of New York in 1963 to return its scenic overlook to wilderness. The Catskill Mountain House and The World Around was given the Gold Remi Award by the 44th WorldFest Houston International Film Festival!
The birth of modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest generation of Jewish-American Comedians.
The Land of Little Rivers, a network of tributaries in the Catskill Mountains of New York, is the birthplace of fly fishing in America and home to anglers obsessed by the sport.
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 of the 1820's and the post Civil War railroad boom.
The 45-minute documentary celebrates the history of the Catskill Water System with rare archival film footage and historic photographs. Deep Water tells the story of the building of the Ashokan Reservoir, Shandaken Tunnel, Schoharie Reservoir, and the Catskill Aqueduct. Narrated by Robb Webb (the voice of "60 Minutes II"), Deep Water documents how several Catskill Mountain towns were destroyed and flooded, how immigrant workers built the dams and tunnels, and how brilliant engineering and political maneuvering allowed the system to be built.