| Description |
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1 or 2.0. |
| Performer |
With: Edward Koch, Michael Bloomberg, Joseph Berger, Charles Rangel, Ethan Geto, Joyce Purnick, Calvin O. Butts, III. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Tom Hurwitz ; editor, Juliet Weber ; music, Mark degli Antoni. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2012. |
| Audience |
Rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
Former Mayor Ed Koch was the quintessential New Yorker. Ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989. His three terms included a competitive 1977 election; the 1980 transit strike; the AIDS epidemic; housing renewal initiatives; and a municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews and rare archival footage, it chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world's most wondrous city in a time of upheaval and reinvention. |
| Note |
Extras: Witnesses NYC (a 29 min. film featuring 1980s arcchival footage plus interviews with new Yorkers who lived through the Koch period); director interview by Ondi Timoner (35 min.); Ed Koch Q&A at the New York Jewish Film festival, his last appearance (17 min.)); theatrical trailer. |
| Language |
In English with optional English SDH subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Koch, Ed, 1924-2013.
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Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
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| Genre/Form |
Biographical films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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| Added Author |
Barsky, Neil.
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Carchman, Jenny.
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Koch, Ed, 1924-2013.
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Bloomberg, Michael.
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Berger, Joseph.
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Zeitgeist Films.
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| Added Title |
Witnesses NYC.
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| Standard No. |
795975115339 |
| Music No. |
Z1153 Zeitgeist Films |
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