The Crash of 1929
1990 55min EN
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.
director: Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer
cast: Philip Bosco, Reuben L. Cain, William C. Durant, Thomas A. Edison
external: Website
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Credits
Philip Bosco
Narrator
Reuben L. Cain
Self
William C. Durant
Self (archive footage)
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage)
Henry Ford
Self (archive footage)
Herbert Hoover
Self (archive footage)
John Kenneth Galbraith
J. P. Morgan
Self (archive footage)
Robert Sobel
Self
William Howard Taft
Self (archive footage)
Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage)
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