Includes both parts of Fritz Lang's Masterpiece PART Fritz Lang deftly evokes the soiled and shoddy world of crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin in the first episode of his masterpiece DR MABUSE THE GAMBLER PART I Using special effects extremely complex editing fade outs animation techniques and superimpositions Lang took the lessons he learned in the supernatural films of German expressionism and … Continue
American Experience - Las Vegas: An Unconventional History - 2005
From its roots in the frontier days of the Wild West, to its post-WWII heyday as the stomping grounds of gangsters and Brat Packers, to its current incarnation as an adult amusement park, the neon-lit metropolis of Las Vegas, Nevada, has been witness to a century's worth of colorful history. This episode of PBS's American Experience series celebrates Sin City's 100th anniversary with a fun-filled trip through its storied past.