PBS, New York - 3 Sunshine And Shadow (1/8)

PBS - New York (Dir: Ric Burns)

New York: A Documentary Film is an eight-part, 17½ hour, American documentary film on the history of New York City. It was directed by Ric Burns and originally aired in the U.S. on PBS. The film was a co-production of Thirteen New York and WGBH Boston.

The much anticipated final two episodes of the acclaimed, Emmy winning series, "New York: A Documentary Film" are narrated by David Ogden Stiers. Episodes six and seven of the series -- directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns -- examine the history of this great city and explore the forces that have shaped it from the Great Depression down to today.

The series was written by Burns and James Sanders. Several noted New York City historians, including Mike Wallace, Kenneth T. Jackson, David Levering Lewis and Robert Caro participated in the making of the series as consultants, and appeared on camera. It was narrated by David Ogden Stiers. Other notable figures who appeared in the series include Rudolph Giuliani (then the mayor of New York City), former mayor Ed Koch, former New York governor Mario Cuomo, former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, poet Allen Ginsberg, novelists Alfred Kazin and Brendan Gill, director Martin Scorsese, journalist Pete Hamill, former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, historian Niall Ferguson, and billionaire Donald Trump.


The documentary is divided into eight parts: * Episode One: The Country and the City (1609--1825) * Episode Two: Order and Disorder (1825--1865) * Episode Three: Sunshine and Shadow (1865--1898) * Episode Four: The Power and the People (1898--1918) * Episode Five: Cosmopolis (1919--1931) * Episode Six: City of Tomorrow (1929--1941) * Episode Seven: The City and the World (1945--2000) * Episode Eight: The Center of the World (1946--2003)

The first five episodes aired in September 1999. Episodes Six and Seven aired in September 2001. A final episode, which told the history of the city through the rise and fall of the World Trade Center, was produced following the September 11 attacks in 2001, airing in September 2003.
(http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork)

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[lespleen1]

THE GREATEST OF ALL DOCUMENTARIES

[deeway1963]

Love this! Love New York! Love! Love! Love! Great post! Thank you!

[GouledXD]

@ForzaJersey Ah... ):

[ForzaJersey]

@GouledXD The Five Points was torn down a century ago

[GouledXD]

@lespleen1 I fucking love this documentary. I want to move to New York City now. Go to central park on a Sunday afternoon, see the five points, and the city at night is so interesting. It's a very magnetic city.

[falldownhard]

@lespleen1 AMEN! I've watched this multiple times in the same way people probably went to see the overrated "Titanic" time after time. It's in a class by itself - one of the first DVD sets I purchased. It speaks the story of everything American, not just New York.