New York, a documentary film. Episode eight. The center of the world, 1946-2003
(DVD) 

Title from container.

Originally broadcast as an episode of the PBS television series, The American experience, on September 30, 2003.

Special features include: Interview with Ric Burns on the making of The Center of the World; Film outtakes featureing Philippe Petit, Ed Koch, Mario Cuomo and others.

Disc 8 of an 8 disc set.

Narrated by David Ogden Stiers.

"The eighth episode of the award-winning series New York: A Documentary Film chronicles the rise and fall of the World Trade Center, whose epic fifty-year history sheds new light on every theme and issue in the city's long march to the center of the world. Propelled forward in the 1960s by the immense power of David and Nelson Rockefeller and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the world's two tallest buildings would rise despite political controversy, daunting engineering challenges, withering critical scorn and the threat of financial disaster. In the end, a spectacular 45-minute escapade by a high-wire artist named Philippe Petit and New York's astonishing renaissance would transform the towers into a worldwide icon--the ultimate symbol of an economic system that had come to dominate much of the planet. The episode comes to a climax with the harrowing events of September 11, 2001--and the extraordinary response of the city's people to the worst crisis in their history."--Container.

Not rated.

DVD; NTSC; Region 1; Dolby digital; widescreen presentation.

Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.