Blackout

Blackout

2015 · 53 min · ★ 6.8 · Documentary

First responders, journalists, shop owners, those inside the pressure-packed control center of Con Edison on West End Avenue, and other New Yorkers tell about what happened when the lights went out on July 13, 1977.

Directed by Callie T. Wiser · Written by David Murdock

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