CHICAGO: City of the Century tells how in just 60 years
Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most
explosively alive cities in the world. It's the story of the wealthy and
the indigent, the heralded and the forgotten, the shop assistants and
the millionaire retail barons who together created Chicago. It describes
how through innovation, ingenuity, determination and sheer ruthlessness,
the captains of industry created empires in a marshy wasteland. And it
explores the hardships endured by the millions of working men and women-most
of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe-whose labor helped
a capitalist class reinvent the way America did business.
Director: Austin Hoyt (Macarthur), Patricia Garcia Rios
DVD Box Set: 4
•Widescreen [16:9 Transfer]
•Dolby Surround Stereo - English
•Audio Commentary: Go Behind the scenes with City of the Century
producers Austin Hoyt and Patricia Garcia Rios
•Interactive Menus: Trivia Test: Do You Know Chicago?
•Interviews: Historian Donald Miller talks about writing Chicago
history
• Bonus Disc: Chicago by "L"; Touring the Neighborhoods'
view
film credits
Chicago: City of the Century - featuring music from
Fire In Boomtown - The Story of the Great Chicago Fire.
ISBN: 0-9660947-1-9
UPC: 6-17311-5001-2-1
PBS
Video |
DVD |
ISBN:
0-7806-4141-8 |
UPC:
794054881424 |
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Available
from PBS Home Video - distributed by Warner Home Video
