Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

Year: 2005

Runtime: 28 mins

Language: English

Directors: Jake Burton, James Sanders

Documentary

Award‑winning short documentary from the Museum of the City of New York traces the city’s evolution from a tiny settlement of Europeans, Africans and Native Americans to today’s global metropolis. It weaves animated maps with archival photos, prints and paintings, and the newly added final chapter documents the striking, sometimes challenging, changes of the early 21st‑century.

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