Director: Ric Burns
Script: Ric Burns, James Sanders
Photography: Buddy Squires, Allen Moore
Editors: Li-Shin Yu, Edward Barteski, David Hanser, Nina Schulman
Music: Brian Keane
Narrator: David Ogden Stiers
Producers: Lisa Ades, Ric Burns
Executive Producers: Ric Burns, Margaret Drain (the American Experience), Judy Crichton (WGBH)
Associate Producer: Helen Kaplan
Production: Steeplechase Films in association with WGBH Boston, Thirteen WNET, the New-York Historical Society
Distribution: WGBH International
Distribution Germany: Telepool
First Broadcast: 14.- 18.11.1999, 21.00 PBS
Selected Filmography Ric Burns: New York - A Documentary Film, 1999; The Way West, 1995; The Donner Party, 1992; Coney Island, 1991; The Civil War (prod., co-author), 1990.
A documentary epic on New York, the city itself. 1919 to 1931: the excesses of the Jazz Age; the arrival of the mass consumption society and pop culture, the growth of the media industry; hectic speculation and Wall Street crash. At the end, everyone stands in awe before the world‘ last great wonder: the Empire State Building. A precise mixture of elegant color photography, interviews with experts and, above all, phenomenal file footage. A film as monumental as its subject.