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1990 Documentary History 0h 55m

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.

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Principal 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)

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