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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 extraord...
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Contents
Sacrifices of Immigrants (1:24) -- Emma Lazarus (2:55) -- Yearning to Breathe Free (1:31) -- Videotaping New York (1:52) -- New York at the Turn of the Century (1:41) -- Transformation (1:55) -- Southern and Eastern Europeans (1:53) -- Promise of ...
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