Where can I watch the documentary movie in NYC?

Watch New York: A Documentary Film | American Experience | Official Site | PBS.

Is Eric Burns related to Ken Burns?

Ric Burns (born 1955) is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey Ward.

Did Ken Burns do a documentary about New York?

New York: A Documentary Film is an eight-part, 17½ hour, American documentary film on the history of New York City. It was directed by Ric Burns and originally aired in the U.S. on PBS….

What is the history of New York City?

New York City traces its origins to a trading post founded on the southern tip of Manhattan Island by Dutch colonists in approximately 1624. The settlement was named New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) in 1626 and was chartered as a city in 1653.

Was Ken Burns an orphan?

Early life and education. Burns was born on July 29, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, a biotechnician, and Robert Kyle Burns, at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University in Manhattan. The documentary filmmaker Ric Burns is his younger brother.

Who is Ric Burns married to?

Burns, best known for his 1999 series “New York: A Documentary Film,” hews mainly to the Columbia University neighborhood where he has lived since 1976 — these days with his wife and collaborator, Bonnie Lafave; their two sons, Adam, 12, and Simon, 14; and their three dogs, the newest a Gordon setter puppy named Fiona.

Where can I find PBS documentaries?

PBS programming is available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS Video App, available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV and Chromecast.