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

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 City | Italian American | Irish American | Tragedy

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) (alternative title)

Runtime:

600 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

New York Historical Society

Trivia:

Originally, the film was to be a seven-episode documentary. After the World Trade Center was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, an eighth episode - "The Center of the World" about the rise and fall of the Twin Towers - was made. It aired September 8, 2003.

Quotes:

Mario M. Cuomo: We had this fantastic contradiction of people who hated you so much, they were willing to give up their life to take yours - and people who loved humanity so much, that they were willing to run into the darn building, in the smoke and flame, just to save the life of somebody they never met.

Movie Connections:

Features In the Street (1948)

It ended too soon!

This is a wonderful documentary. My only regret is that it stopped in 1931. So many things have happened since that I would like to have seen covered: Robert Moses' public works, effects of World War II and the Korean War, the explosion of air travel and the development of LaGuardia and Kennedy airports. There's been much history in the 70 years since 1931. A great piece of work, though.