100 Years of 100 Things: New York Films

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 19, 2025

As our centennial series continues, James Sanders, architect, author, filmmaker, and co-writer with Ric Burns of the PBS series "New York: A Documentary Film" and its companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History (Knopf, 2021) and the author of Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies (Knopf, 2001), talks about the New York seen in films since the beginning of movie-making.

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