November 14, 1999 • 55m
The Country and the City, 1609-1825: New York, notes narrator David Ogden Stiers, "was a business proposition from the very start...Read more
November 15, 1999 • 55m
"Order and Disorder: 1825-1865" recalls a period of tremendous growth and ferment. Most of the new arrivals were Irish immigrants ...Read more
November 16, 1999 • 55m
"Sunshine and Shadow: 1865-1898" During the Gilded Age, New York "was home to the greatest concentration of wealth in human histor...Read more
November 17, 1999 • 55m
"The Power and the People: 1898-1914" recalls the era of mass immigration. "The entire world would arrive on the city's doorstep,"...Read more
November 18, 1999 • 55m
"Cosmopolis: 1914-1931" recalls the WWI years and the "Roaring '20s" in the city that F. Scott Fitzgerald called "the land of ambi...Read more
January 10, 2000 • 55m
Profiling Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), the wife of one president, the niece of another and, says historian Geoffrey Ward, "one o...Read more
January 24, 2000 • 55m
Mandy Patinkin narrates a biography of Harry Houdini (1874-1926) that focuses on his amazing feats (later ones are seen in clips; ...Read more
January 31, 2000 • 55m
Charting the tortuous three-year gambit that led to Richard Nixon's historic February 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China...Read more
February 14, 2000 • 55m
The duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, narrator Linda Hunt says, was an 1804 gunfight between “the founder of America...Read more
February 28, 2000 • 55m
John Brown could be seen as a hero or a madman (perhaps both), but either way, there's no doubt he played a role in igniting the C...Read more
April 23, 2000 • 55m
A haunting two-part profile of George Wallace, who, says narrator Randy Quaid, "divided a nation and launched a conservative movem...Read more
April 24, 2000 • 55m
The conclusion of a two-part profile of George Wallace (1919-98) focuses on his Presidential campaigns and the 1972 attempt on his...Read more
May 1, 2000 • 55m
Former slaves spread the gospel of African-American music in an inspiring 2000 chronicle of the 1870s Tennessee vocal group Jubile...Read more
May 8, 2000 • 55m
An atmospheric profile of Joe DiMaggio (1914-99), baseball's "Yankee Clipper," explores how and why he played what narrator (and c...Read more
May 23, 2000 • 55m
Profiling George Eastman (1854-1932), whose Kodak and Brownie cameras "forever changed the way people see their world," says narra...Read more