The intimate screening featured three excerpts from the landmark series’ eagerly anticipated new episodes and a conversation between the filmmakers and KPF’s President, James von Klemperer FAIA RIBA.
The two new episodes of “New York: A Documentary Film,” an Emmy award-winning series, are set to be broadcast nationally on public television in Fall 2026. They extend the original eight-part series, which brought the epic story of America’s greatest city to audiences nationwide and, in the words of Robert A. Caro, “provided a perspective on the city’s past that powerfully informs current-day thinking about the city’s future.”
Ric Burns is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker who has produced more than 60 hours of programming for PBS, starting with “The Civil War,” which he produced with his brother, Ken Burns. The many celebrated films he has made since have been honored with six Emmy Awards, three Alfred DuPont Awards, and two Peabody Awards.
James Sanders FAIA is an internationally recognized architect and Emmy Award-winning co-writer and producer of the New York series. He is the author of “Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies,” hailed by Jane Jacobs as a “marvelous—miraculous—book,” and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.
