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

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

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 14, 2005

Runtime

1h 17m

Genres

History, Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

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

Production Companies

GBH, Insignia Films

Director

Stephen Ives

Description

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.