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.
"Taking Woodstock" bygger på Elliot Tabers memoarer om en ung man som försöker slå sig fram som inredningsarkitekt i New York. Trots sina storslagna drömmar fastnar Elliot på familjemotellet El Monaco, som drivs av hans rysk-judiska föräldrar. När han får veta att en konsert som planerats i en närliggande stad blivit inställd, erbjuder han motellet som ny konsertplats för att dra in lite extra pengar. Föga anar Elliot att hans erbjudande kommer att ligga till grund för det som närmast kan beskrivas som ett jordskalv i världens festivalkretsar. Snart flyttar det färgstarka Woodstockföljet in på El Monaco och invånarna i den konservativa staden ställs öga mot öga med bohemiska konstnärer, transvestiter, njutningslystna musikproducenter och en tidvattenvåg av unga människor som längtar efter att få delta i en av världens största sammankomster fylld av peace, love and understanding...
En dag får hon ett brev från Terry, som berättar att han är på väg hem. Men vad Sammy hoppades skulle bli ett kärt och varmt återseende förvandlas snabbt till djup besvikelse när det går upp för henne vad syftet med den aningen destruktive Terrys hemkomst verkligen är. Samtidigt tar den tidigare kyliga relationen till hennes nye chef en oväntad vändning, vilket ytterligare ställer problemen på sin spets...
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.
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.
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.
A recently jilted dancer follows her ex-boyfriend to his new home, where she insinuates herself into his new relationship.
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.
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.
The birth of modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest generation of Jewish-American Comedians.
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.
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!