The Crash of 1929

55 mins
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.

Philip Bosco

Narrator

William C. Durant

Self (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison

Self (archive footage)

Henry Ford

Self (archive footage)

Herbert Hoover

Self (archive footage)

J. P. Morgan

Self (archive footage)

William Howard Taft

Self (archive footage)

Calvin Coolidge

Self (archive footage)

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