Title:
New York [videorecording] : a documentary film / a Steeplechase Films production in association with WGBH Boston, Thirteen/WNET New York, New York Historical Society ; producers, Lisa Ades, Ric Burns ; director, Ric Burns.
Author:
Burns, Ric.
Stiers, David Ogden.
Scorsese, Martin.
Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003.
Lebowitz, Fran.
Giuliani, Rudolph W.
Koch, Ed, 1924-
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
New-York Historical Society.
PBS Home Video.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Publication Information:
[United States] : PBS Home Video : distributed by Warner Home Video, c2001.
Call Number:
F128.3 .N4952 2001
Abstract:
This series chronicles the history of New York City from its beginnings in 1609 as a Dutch trading post, through the depression, onto the turbulent years of change in the following decades after WWII, to its present day status as one of the most important and influencial cities in the world.
Electronic Access:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork
ISBN:
9780780636354
Physical Description:
7 videodiscs (approx. 840 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from container.
Special features: Charlie Rose interview; additional interviews including Donald Trump and more; archival motion pictures; deleted scenes.
Contents:
Part 1. The country and the city, 1609-1825 -- Part 2. Order and disorder, 1825-1865 -- Part 3. Sunshine and shadow, 1865-1898 -- Part 4. The power and the people, 1898-1918 -- Part 5. Cosmopolis, 1919-1931 -- Part 6. City of tomorrow, 1929-1941 -- Part 7. City and the world, 1946-present.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
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