Protagonizada por: Louis (I) Armstrong , Abraham Beame , Thomas (I) Bender , Irving (I) Berlin , Marshall Berman , Philip Bosco , Rev. Calvin O. Butts III , Robert A. Caro , Caleb Carr , Winston (I) Churchill , Daniel Czitrom , Keith (I) David , E.L. Doctorow , Duke Ellington , F. Scott Fitzgerald , George Gershwin , Paul Giamatti , Brendan (I) Gill , Allen Ginsberg , Rudolph W. Giuliani , John Steele Gordon , Spalding Gray , Pete Hamill , James Hazeldine , Edward Herrmann , Kenneth (I) Jackson , Gene (I) Jones , Alfred Kazin , Frederic Kimball , Edward I. Koch , Tony Kushner , Fiorello LaGuardia , Robert Sean Leonard , David Levering Lewis , John V. (I) Lindsay , Eric (I) Lipton , Philip Lopate , David Margulies , Frank McCourt , David (II) McCullough , Patrick (IV) McGrath , Joe Morton , Robert (III) Moses , Daniel Patrick Moynihan , George Plimpton , Peter (V) Quinn , John Jakob Raskob , Richard (I) Rodgers , Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Luc Sante , Martin Scorsese , Isaiah Sheffer , Ron (I) Silver , Joel (V) Silverman , Alfred E. (II) Smith , Robert A.M. Stern , David Ogden Stiers , John Kuo Wei Tchen , George W.S. Trow , Donald Trump , Jimmy (I) Walker , Mike (IV) Wallace , Eli Wallach , Craig Steven Wilder , Ruth J. Abram , Bella Abzug , Joan (I) Allen , Mrs. Vincent Astor , Carol Berkin , Ann (IV) Douglas , Janeane Garofalo , Nancy Grose , Margo Jefferson , Fran Lebowitz , Lois (I) Smith , Gretchen Sullivan Sorin , Frances Sternhagen , Jean Strouse , Carol Willis .

Dirigida por: Lisa Ades , Ric Burns .

Escrita por: Ric Burns , Emma (I) Lazarus , James (II) Sanders .

Producida por: Lisa Ades , Ric Burns , Kerry Herman , Helen (II) Kaplan , Kate Roth Knull , Danna Liebert , Steve Rivo , Donald Rosenfeld , Ray Segal , Lily Thorne .

Musicalizada por: Brian (I) Keane .

Géneros: Documental , Histórica .