Basic Info
Release: November 19, 1990
Runtime: 55 min
Status: Released
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The Crash of 1929
1990
55 min
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.
Genres
Documentary
History
Production Countries
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- English en
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Cast
Philip Bosco
Narrator
Reuben L. Cain
Self
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
J. P. Morgan
Self (archive footage)
Robert Sobel
Self
William Howard Taft
Self (archive footage)
Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Ronald Blumer
Writer
Ellen Giffard
Director
Muffie Meyer
Director
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