KOCH documentary trailer

KOCH will open in New York on February 1, 2013 before playing around the country. For more information visit http://www.kochthemovie.com or like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/KochTheMovie.

Former Mayor Ed Koch is the quintessential New Yorker. Still ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, the now 88-year-old Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. First-time filmmaker (and former Wall Street Journal reporter) Neil Barsky has crafted an intimate and revealing portrait of this intensely private man, his legacy as a political titan, and the town he helped transform. The tumult of his three terms included a fiercely competitive 1977 election; an infamous 1980 transit strike; the burgeoning AIDS epidemic; landmark housing renewal initiatives; and an irreparable municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews and rare archival footage, Koch thrillingly chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world's most wondrous city in a time of upheaval and reinvention.

Read this excellent preview in the Wall Street Journal: http://tinyurl.com/a48dnbe

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[ZeitgeistFilms]

"Highly entertaining, and at times quite moving"

-Wall Street Journal

Check out the article! Link is in the video description.

[Sofia Aguilar]

R.I.P MAYOR KOCH

[Brian Hamilton]

This, I'd like to see.

Koch was a fascinating character.

[yoyoperri]

My uncle <3

[ralpheyboyboxing]

new york at its best era with him in office

[oshalosh]

Such unfortunate timing.