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201224 minPGdocumentary

8.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Up to Speed

201224 minPGdocumentary

8.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Tour guide and historian Speed Levitch explores lesser-known American monuments, including San Francisco's shoe gardens and a lucky subway grate in New York City.

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Tour guide and historian Speed Levitch explores lesser-known American monuments, including San Francisco's shoe gardens and a lucky subway grate in New York City.

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Bob Badwaydirector

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Marguerite Moreaucast

Brittany Curran

Brittany Currancast

Colin Hay

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Tour guide, historian and flaneur "Speed" Levitch travels the nation visiting those monuments that rarely make it into travel guides, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.

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