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The Crash of 1929 (1990)

Directed by Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer

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.

Length 55 minutes

Actors

Philip Bosco | Reuben L. Cain | William C. Durant | Thomas A. Edison | Henry Ford | Herbert Hoover | John Kenneth Galbraith | J.P. Morgan | Robert Sobel | William Howard Taft | Calvin Coolidge