
This eight-part, 16½-hour television event explores New York City's rich history as the premier laboratory of modern life. A sweeping narrative covering nearly 400 years and 400 square miles, it reveals a complex and dynamic city that has played an unparalleled role in shaping the nation and reflecting its ideals.
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Air Date: 1999-11-14
The series begins by identifying the key themes that shaped New York's history: commerce and capitalism, diversity an...
Air Date: 1999-11-15
Already established as America's premier port, New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis...
Air Date: 1999-11-16
Now the spotlight shines on the growth, glamour and grief of New York during America's giddy postwar "Gilded Age." Ex...
Air Date: 1999-11-17
As New York spilled into the new century, the extraordinary interplay of capitalism, democracy and transformation sur...
Air Date: 1999-11-18
In this short but dazzling period, New York became the focal point of an extraordinary array of human and cultural en...
Air Date: 2001-09-30
In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New D...
Air Date: 2001-10-01
In exploring the social, economic and physical forces that swept through the city in the post-war period, Episode Sev...
Air Date: 2003-09-08
Examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, t...
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Explores the eventful history of New York across the tumultuous first two decades of the 21st century, starting in th...
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