The Crash of 1929 (1990)

0.0/10 55 min Documentary History

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.

Cast

Philip Bosco

Narrator

Thomas A. Edison

Self (archive footage)

Henry Ford

Self (archive footage)

Herbert Hoover

Self (archive footage)

John Kenneth Galbraith

William Howard Taft

Self (archive footage)

Calvin Coolidge

Self (archive footage)

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