Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 2016 Watch Free in HD

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.

Genre:

Biography, Documentary, History

Actors:

Thomas Campanella, Vincent DOnofrio, Mindy Fullilove, Alexander Garvin, Paul Goldberger, Steven Johnson, Max Page, Mary Rowe, Michael Sorkin, Marisa Tomei, Jane Jacobs...»

Director:

Matt Tyrnauer

Country:

United States

Release:

2016

IMDb:

7.0

Quality:

Duration:

92 min

Chicago Reader

Most good documentaries are powered by conflict, and you couldn't ask for a struggle more elemental or relevant to our time than the one chronicled in Citizen Jane: Battle for the City.

May 25, 2017

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Mark Reviews Movies

[It] feels like a visualized term paper.

May 11, 2017

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The Sunday Age

A bracing, insightful study of how cities are made and sometimes destroyed.

June 30, 2017

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Boston Globe

She was also one tough cookie who appreciated a good fight. A bit more internal tussle would have both better honored her spirit and made for a better documentary.

June 01, 2017

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Irish Times

A timely warning against big-block buildings with empty ground-floor shop units, nonetheless.

June 14, 2017

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Philadelphia Inquirer

In the context of today's stymied political trench wars, there is inspiration to be found in Jacobs' example of local activism, original thinking, and rational argument blossoming into useful change.

May 03, 2017

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Salt Lake Tribune

A plucky intellectual takes on New York's most powerful builder in Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, an engrossing documentary that details a historical conflict that is being repeated around the world today.

June 22, 2017

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

This straightforward and bracingly optimistic documentary explains the ways that shaping politics and wielding power can ease urban decline or inflate it.

May 11, 2017

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Washington Post

The movie is scored like a thriller, seemingly building to some terrifying conclusion. And, in a way, it does ...

May 04, 2017

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The Film Stage

It's his depiction of the adversarial relationship between those making decisions and those affected by them that hits home.

May 11, 2017

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Austin Chronicle

Like his previous film, Valentino: The Last Emperor, about the famous fashion designer, director Matt Tyrnauer takes on a fascinating subject yet mostly consolidates existing information without adding much to our knowledge base.

June 29, 2017

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Detroit News

Tyrnauer uses a ton of archival footage to tell his story, and brings it in at a brisk 92 minutes.

June 02, 2017

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