| Description |
8 videodisc (DVD)s (approximately 860 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in |
| Contents |
Episode 1. 1609-1825, The country and the city -- Episode 2. 1825-1865, Order and disorder -- Episode 3. 1865-1898, Sunshine and shadow -- Episode 4. 1898-1918, The power and the people -- Episode 5. 1919-1931, Cosmopolis -- Episode 6. 1929-1941, City of tomorrow -- Episode 7. 1945-present, The city and the world -- Episode 8. 1946-2003, The center of the world |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Title from container |
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Special features: Charlie Rose interview; additional interviews including Donald Trump and more; archival motion pictures; deleted scenes |
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"A Steeplechase Films production for the American Experience in association with WGBH Boston, Thirteen/WNET, and the New-York Historical Society." |
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Originally broadcast as as part of the PBS series the American experience in 1999 |
| Performer |
Narrator: David Ogden Stiers; featured interviews with: Martin Scorsese, Senator Daniel Patrick Maynihan, Fran Lebowitz, Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, Former Mayor Ed Koch |
| Notes |
DVD. Region unspecified |
| SUBJECT |
New York (N.Y.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091418
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091434
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New York (N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007751 -- Commerce http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001412 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Documentary films.
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Video recordings.
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| Author |
Burns, Ric.
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Ades, Lisa.
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Sanders, James, 1955-
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Stiers, David Ogden.
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Scorsese, Martin.
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Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003.
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Lebowitz, Fran.
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Giuliani, Rudolph W.
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Koch, Ed, 1924-2013.
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Steeplechase Films Inc.
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WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
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WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
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New-York Historical Society.
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PBS Home Video.
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