New York, 1825-1865. Order and Disorder
Description
This episode of New York: A Documentary Film details New York's enormous growth as a booming commercial center and multi-ethnic port, and the mounting tensions that set the stage for the nation's bloodiest riot. Filmmaker Ric Burns examines how New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and Irish immigration turned the city into one of the world's most complex urban environments, bringing with it a host of new social problems. The program reveals how the city's artists, innovators and leaders, from poet Walt Whitman to Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (the designers of Central Park) grappled with the city's growing conflicts - which culminated in the catastrophic Civil War Draft Riots of 1863.
Runtime
120 min
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Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2011], c2003
Database
Films on Demand
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