NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Ric Burns' sprawling, epic documentary about New York City comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. The closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are no subtitles on this release. In addition to the seven episodes, the disc contains Burns' interview with Charlie Rose, the original trailer, deleted scenes, and interviews with New York luminaries like Martin Scorsese, writer Fran Lebowitz, and mogul Donald Trump. This is a superb presentation of a fantastic, informative documentary.;
• 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
• Director: Ric Burns
• Runtime: 14:00
• Company: Paramount
• Media Format: movie