New York

The series begins by identifying the key themes that shaped New York's history: commerce and capitalism, diversity and democracy, transformation and c...

Already established as America's premier port, New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and...

Now the spotlight shines on the growth, glamour and grief of New York during America's giddy postwar "Gilded Age." Exploring the incomparable wealth o...

As New York spilled into the new century, the extraordinary interplay of capitalism, democracy and transformation surged to a climax. During a single...

In this short but dazzling period, New York became the focal point of an extraordinary array of human and cultural energies, reaching its highest leve...

In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New Deal, which permanently altered th...

In exploring the social, economic and physical forces that swept through the city in the post-war period, Episode Seven examines the great African-Ame...

Examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, through its controversial construc...

Trace New York’s turbulent decline and rebirth in the last decades of the 20th century.

Follow New York's transformation since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.