Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today (2005)

Plot Summary

The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film's final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.

Full Cast & Characters

Stanley Tucci

Narrator (voice)

Louis Auchincloss

Additional Voices

John Guare

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Pete Hamill

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Vy Higginsen

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Celedonia Jones

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Joe Morton

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Cynthia Nixon

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Director & Crew

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