NEW YORK, EPISODE 8: 1946-2003 - THE CENTER OF THE WORLD [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 2003
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: The eighth episode of the award-winning series 'New York: A Documentary Film' chronicles the rise and fall of the World Trade Center, whose epic fifty-year history sheds new light on every theme and issue in the city's long march to the center of the world. Propelled forward in the 1960s by the immense power of David and Nelson Rockefeller and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the world's two tallest buildings would rise despite political controversy, daunting engineering challenges, withering critical scorn and the threat of financial disaster. In the end, a spectacular 45-minute escapade by a high-wire artist named Philippe Petit and New York's astonishing renaissance would transform the towers into a worldwide icon - the ultimate symbol of an economic system that had come to dominate much of the planet. The episode comes to a climax with the harrowing events of September 11, 2001 - and the extraordinary response of the city's people to the worst crisis in their history.;
• Cast: David Ogden Stiers, John Steele Gordon, Kenneth Jackson, Robert A.M. Stern, Mike Wallace, Philip Bosco, Brendan Gill, David McCullough, Calvin O. Butts III, Robert A. Caro, Pete Hamill, Alfred Kazin, George Plimpton, Luc Sante, Craig Steven Wilder, Marshall Berman, Daniel Czitrom, Paul Giamatti, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Sean Leonard, Peter Quinn, Callie Thorne, Eli Wallach, Caleb Carr, Keith David, Allen Ginsberg, Spalding Gray, James Hazeldine, David Levering Lewis, Philip Lopate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Frances Sternhagen, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Donald Trump, Carol Willis, Ruth J. Abram, Bella Abzug, Thomas Bender, Joshua Freeman, Janeane Garofalo, Frances Golden, Cheryl Greenberg, Josh Hamilton, Ada Louise Huxtable, Margo Jefferson, Frederic Kimball, Edward I. Koch, David Margulies, Frank Pellegrino, Anna Quindlen, Susan Sarandon, Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Ray Suarez, Harris Yulin, Louis Armstrong, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Abraham Beame, Irving Berlin, Winston Churchill, Duke Ellington, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Edward Herrmann, Gene Jones, Fiorello LaGuardia, John V. Lindsay, Eric Lipton, Patrick McGrath, Robert Moses, Richard Rodgers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Isaiah Sheffer, Alfred E. Smith, Lois Smith, George W.S. Trow, Jimmy Walker, Ric Burns, James Sanders
• Director: Ric Burns
• Runtime: 3:00
• Company: Steeplechase Films
• Media Format: Movie