LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The city of Las Vegas is premiering a new documentary, as part of a series showing the city’s history. “The City of Las Vegas: The 1980s” will premiere Saturday, May 16, at 7 p.m. on government Cable Channel 2 and on their YouTube channel.
The film is the eighth installment of the series, funded by the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial and produced by Boyd Productions LLC. The decades-long project is designed to highlight the city’s evolution, with each episode focusing on a different era
The first film in the series, “The City of Las Vegas: The Early Years,” debuted May 15, 2019. That documentary focused on the city’s founding and its first two decades. Each subsequent episode has been released near May 15, the anniversary of the city’s 1905 founding, as part of the centennial commission’s ongoing efforts to preserve and promote local history.
The city will also air all of the decade-focused episodes in a marathon on Channel 2. The full series is scheduled to run Friday, May 15, at 8:30 a.m., and again Sunday, May 17, at 7 a.m.
All of the documentaries and other historical films are also available on YouTube on the city of Las Vegas TV channel.
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