"New York: A Documentary Film" (1999) TV series

User Rating:

9.3/10   

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

14 November 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | History

Plot:

Ric Burns (brother of the famed documentarian Ken Burns) presents an exhaustive history of New York...

Plot Keywords:

City | New York | New York City | Italian American | Plane Crash

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

David Ogden Stiers	...	Narrator (7 episodes, 1999)
John Steele Gordon	...	Himself (7 episodes, 1999)
Kenneth Jackson	...	Himself (7 episodes, 1999)
Robert A.M. Stern	...	Himself (7 episodes, 1999)
Mike Wallace	...	Himself (historian) (7 episodes, 1999)
Philip Bosco		(6 episodes, 1999)
Brendan Gill	...	Himself (6 episodes, 1999)
David McCullough	...	Himself (6 episodes, 1999)
Rev. Calvin O. Butts III	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1999)
Robert A. Caro	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1999)
Pete Hamill	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1999)
Alfred Kazin	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1999)
George Plimpton		(5 episodes, 1999)
Luc Sante	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1999)
Craig Steven Wilder	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1999)
Marshall Berman	...	Himself (4 episodes, 1999)
Daniel Czitrom	...	Himself (4 episodes, 1999)
Paul Giamatti	...	Narrator (4 episodes, 1999)
Rudolph W. Giuliani	...	Himself (4 episodes, 1999)
Fran Lebowitz	...	Herself (4 episodes, 1999)
Robert Sean Leonard		(4 episodes, 1999)
Peter Quinn	...	Himself (4 episodes, 1999)
Callie Thorne	...	Voice (4 episodes, 1999)
Eli Wallach		(4 episodes, 1999)
Caleb Carr	...	Himself (3 episodes, 1999)
Keith David		(3 episodes, 1999)
Allen Ginsberg	...	Himself (3 episodes, 1999)
Spalding Gray	...	Himself (3 episodes, 1999)
James Hazeldine		(3 episodes, 1999)
David Levering Lewis	...	Himself (3 episodes, 1999)
Philip Lopate	...	Himself (3 episodes, 1999)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	...	Himself (3 episodes, 1999)
Frances Sternhagen		(3 episodes, 1999)
John Kuo Wei Tchen	...	Himself (3 episodes, 1999)
Donald Trump	...	Himself (3 episodes, 1999)
Carol Willis	...	Herself (3 episodes, 1999)
Ruth J. Abram	...	Herself (2 episodes, 1999)
Bella Abzug	...	Herself (2 episodes, 1999)
Thomas Bender	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1999)
Joshua Freeman	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1999)
Janeane Garofalo	...	Herself (2 episodes, 1999)
Frances Golden	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1999)
Cheryl Greenberg	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1999)
Josh Hamilton		(2 episodes, 1999)
Ada Louise Huxtable	...	Herself (2 episodes, 1999)
Margo Jefferson	...	Herself (2 episodes, 1999)
Frederic Kimball	...	Voice (2 episodes, 1999)
Edward I. Koch	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1999)
David Margulies	...	Voice (2 episodes, 1999)
Frank Pellegrino	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1999)
Anna Quindlen	...	Herself (2 episodes, 1999)
Susan Sarandon		(2 episodes, 1999)
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin	...	Herself (2 episodes, 1999)
Ray Suarez	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1999)
Harris Yulin		(2 episodes, 1999)

Also Known As:

"American Experience: New York - A Documentary Film" (USA)

Runtime:

600 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

New York Historical Society

Trivia:

Filming took nearly four years and over 170 days including interviews, shooting archival footage, and New York landscapes.

Quotes:

voice: From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building and, just as it had been a tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza Roof to take leave of the beautiful city, extending as far as eyes could reach, so now I went to the roof of the last and most magnificent of towers...

Movie Connections:

Features In the Street (1948)

Sheds Light

As a native New Yorker, i really found this documentary on New York very interesting. Ken burns did very good work on the "Jazz" documentary, and I found this on PBS one Saturday. I was very interested on how New York would be portrayed, and it was portrayed kust like it is, a wonderful city with a long history. "New York" is not to be missed by any New Yorker or anyone interested in New York.

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