Koch

First-time filmmaker and former ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Neil Barsky’s 2012 documentary film ''Koch'' explores the origins, career, and legacy of Ed Koch, who served as Mayor of New York City for three consecutive terms from 1978 to 1989. With candid interviews and rare archival footage, the film offers a close look at a man known for being intensely private in spite of his dynamic public persona, and chronicles the tumultuous events which marked his time in office – a fiercely competitive New York City mayoral election, 1977, the 1980 New York City transit strike, the burgeoning HIV/AIDS in the United States, landmark housing renewal initiatives, and an irreparable municipal corruption scandal. Poignant and often humorous, ''Koch'' is a portrait not only of one of New York’s most iconic political figures, but of New York City itself at a time of radical upheaval and transformation.