The Crash of 1929
1990Based 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.
Acted in
Philip Bosco
as Narrator
Reuben L. Cain
as Self
William C. Durant
as Self (archive footage)
Thomas A. Edison
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Ford
as Self (archive footage)
Herbert Hoover
as Self (archive footage)
John Kenneth Galbraith
J. P. Morgan
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Sobel
as Self
William Howard Taft
as Self (archive footage)
Calvin Coolidge
as Self (archive footage)