The Crash of 1929 (1990)

0.0 November 19, 1990 55m Released
DocumentaryHistory

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.

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Cast

  • Philip Bosco

    Philip Bosco

    Narrator

  • Reuben L. Cain

    Reuben L. Cain

    Self

  • William C. Durant

    William C. Durant

    Self (archive footage)

  • Thomas A. Edison

    Thomas A. Edison

    Self (archive footage)

  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    Self (archive footage)

  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover

    Self (archive footage)

  • John Kenneth Galbraith

    John Kenneth Galbraith

  • J. P. Morgan

    J. P. Morgan

    Self (archive footage)

  • Robert Sobel

    Robert Sobel

    Self

  • William Howard Taft

    William Howard Taft

    Self (archive footage)

  • Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge

    Self (archive footage)

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