Season 1
(1999)
Cast
as Narrator
as Self - Commentator
as Self - Commentator
as Self - Commentator
as Self - Commentator
Episodes
The Country and the City (1609–1825) 0.0
November 14, 1999
The series begins by identifying the key themes that shaped New York's history: commerce and capitalism, diversity and …
Order and Disorder (1825–1865) 0.0
November 15, 1999
Already established as America's premier port, New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis a…
Sunshine and Shadow (1865–1898) 0.0
November 16, 1999
Now the spotlight shines on the growth, glamour and grief of New York during America's giddy postwar "Gilded Age." Expl…
The Power and the People (1898–1918) 0.0
November 17, 1999
As New York spilled into the new century, the extraordinary interplay of capitalism, democracy and transformation surge…
Cosmopolis (1919–1931) 0.0
November 18, 1999
In this short but dazzling period, New York became the focal point of an extraordinary array of human and cultural ener…
City of Tomorrow (1929–1941) 0.0
September 30, 2001
In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New Dea…
The City and the World (1945–2000) 0.0
October 1, 2001
In exploring the social, economic and physical forces that swept through the city in the post-war period, Episode Seven…
The Center of the World (1946–2003) 0.0
September 8, 2003
Examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, thr…