The Crash of 1929

Muffie Meyer
1990-11-19


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55 min

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

Name Character Team
Philip Bosco Narrator Unowned
Reuben L. Cain Self Unowned
William C. Durant Self (archive footage) Unowned
Thomas A. Edison Self (archive footage) Unowned
Henry Ford Self (archive footage) Unowned
Herbert Hoover Self (archive footage) Unowned
John Kenneth Galbraith Unowned
J. P. Morgan Self (archive footage) Unowned
Robert Sobel Self Unowned
William Howard Taft Self (archive footage) Unowned
Calvin Coolidge Self (archive footage) Unowned