The Crash of 1929

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

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)