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Follow New York's transformation since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Follow New York’s stunning transformation in the decades since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. As the city reckons with multiple major crises, including financial collapse, Superstorm Sandy, and a devastating pandemic, it defies the predictions of doomsayers and rebuilds—emerging each time more resilient.
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Preview | The Future of Cities
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Follow New York’s stunning transformation in the decades since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. As the city reckons with multiple major crises, including financial collapse, Superstorm Sandy, and a devastating pandemic, it defies the predictions of doomsayers and rebuilds—emerging each time more resilient.
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Ric Burns Talks to THR
Director and co-writer Ric Burns speaks with The Hollywood Reporter about the two new installments in his NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM series, which have been in the works for more than a decade.-3,000 people killed in a morning.
A moment that changed history.
-You get this cataclysmic financial collapse of a kind that we haven't seen since the Great Depression.
-The pandemic, by any normal measure, should have killed us.
-There's the feeling that Sandy couldn't take away, 9/11 couldn't take away, a fiscal crisis couldn't take away, that COVID couldn't take away.
-First of all, "New York is dead"?
Please don't make me laugh, okay?
NewRebuilding Ground Zero: How NYC Rose from the Ashes
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Witness the decade-long rebuilding of Lower Manhattan after the September 11th attacks. (7m 30s)
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Corporate funding for NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM "Shadows of the Past" and "The Future of Cities" was provided by Hudson River Trading. Major funding was provided by the American...