City Out of Wilderness (1974)

Directed by

Francis Thompson

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

28 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary tells the story of Washington D.C. from its founding through the 1970s. It covers how the city was built and how it changed over time.

informativehistoricalpatrioticstraightforwardeducationalnostalgicfactual

What happens

City Out of Wilderness is a 1974 American short documentary film produced by Francis Thompson. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Produced by the United States Capitol Historical Society, City Out of Wilderness chronicles the history and evolution of Washington, D.C., from its very beginnings to the then-modern era of the 1970s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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