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Rated: Unrated; Genre: Documentary; With: David Ogden Stiers; Distributor: PBS
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By Daniel Fierman
Daniel Fierman
Daniel Fierman is a staff writer for EW

The characters -- Hamilton, Whitman, Fitzgerald, Roosevelt, La Guardia, Moses -- are larger-than-life. The setting is mythic. The scope epic. Even the 14-hour running time whistles by like a No. 2 express train. But more than anything else, documentarian Ric Burns' sprawling history of New York City is goggle-eyed with love -- sweet, instructive, and wildly entertaining. For a New Yorker, it was the perfect thing to watch last week: With the vast story of the city laid in front of you, there is no way to conclude anything but that Gotham will rise again.


Posted Oct 12, 2001
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