American Experience

Season 14 Episode 1: New York (6): The City of Tomorrow

"City of Tomorrow (1929-45)" focuses on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who used his close ties to FDR to make the city "a gigantic laboratory of civic reconstruction"; and master builder Robert Moses, who "adapted a 19th century city to 20th century circumstances," says historian Kenneth Jackson. The biggest one: the car. Says narrator David Ogden Stiers: "It challenged all previous assumptions about urban life."

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

38

Episodes:

400

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1988

IMDb:

6.6