Synopsis
Experience the heart and soul of the thirteen of the world’s most celebrated streets. From the elegance of Paris' Champs Elysèes to America’s star-studded avenue of promise, Sunset Boulevard, explore the most enduring destinations around the world. Experience the juxtaposition of the sinuous tango and politics on Buenos Aires’s Avenida de Mayo. Discover Berlin’s Kurfurstendamm where jubilant East Berliners celebrated when the great Wall fell. These aren’t ordinary streets but extravagant boulevards that are alive with raw energy, beauty, and remarkable stories of notoriety, glamour, turbulence, secrets, and history. Did you know that the shape of New York’s Broadway follows an ancient native path? Feel the pulse of Sydney’s edgy, vibrant Darlinghurst Road. Experience Montreal’s Boulevard St. Laurent where immigrants, artists, heroes and villains have rubbed shoulders. See why London’s The Strand was known as the Street of Palaces. This series puts a world of memorable travel and history at your fingertips by using spectacular aerial photography to locate the streets geographically, and time-lapse sequences, that give the viewer a feel for the daily rhythm of street life, Streets of the World brings out the character and vibrancy of the streets. Journeying back through times of celebrity, personal tragedy, and upheaval, Streets of the World explores the surprising truths that lurk behind the great facades that rise from the pavement. This is popular culture and history at its most compelling.


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