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Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City
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Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City

Nov 14, 2005
1h 17m
★ 7.0

Overview

Traces the often surprising, endlessly entertaining history of the country's most outrageous playground. Interviews with Las Vegas insiders as well as everyday citizens in search of the American Dream chronicle how Las Vegas transformed itself from remote frontier way station into the Depression-era "Gateway to the Hoover Dam," then into the mid-century gangster metropolis known as "Sin City," and finally into a family vacation destination and the fastest-growing city in the United States.

Genres

History
Documentary

Production Companies

GBH
Insignia Films

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Cast

Michael Murphy

Narrator

Michael Murphy

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