The Crash of 1929
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.
Release Date: 1990-11-19
DocumentaryHistory
Official website: https://middlemarch.com/film/the-crash-of-1929/
Casts
Philip Bosco
Narrator
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage)
Henry Ford
Self (archive footage)
Herbert Hoover
Self (archive footage)
William Howard Taft
Self (archive footage)
Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage)
