New York, 1919-1931: Cosmopolis
During this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns explores how the post-World War I economic boom, the rise of consumer culture, and the birth of new mass media industries fueled the convergence of an incredible array of human...
New York, 1898-1918: The Power and the People
In this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns follows the city into the 20th century in the wake of an extraordinary wave of immigration and the birth of the skyscraper. As New York spilled into the new century, the extraordin...
The Battle of Ideas
The social and economic catastrophe left in the ashes of World War I ignited an intellectual and political struggle that would last most of the 20th century. This program tells the story of how, for half a century, the world moved toward more govern...
The Agony of Reform
In the 20th century, most of the world's nations tried to create prosperity through government control of their economies—from the totalitarian central planning of the communist world to more democratic nations that tried to develop their economie...
The New Rules of the Game
In the early 1990s, most of the world had converted to free-market capitalism, setting the stage for a new, and rapidly growing, global economy. Disappearing trade barriers and unrestricted capital flows fueled by a global workforce and furious tech...