The Crash of 1929
1990
0h 55m
DocumentaryHistory
Overview
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
Top Cast
Philip Bosco
Narrator
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Reuben L. Cain
Self
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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
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J. P. Morgan
Self (archive footage)
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Robert Sobel
Self
William Howard Taft
Self (archive footage)
