The Crash of 1929 (1990)

The Crash of 1929

1990

Documentary History

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Ellen Giffard

Muffie Meyer

Cast

Henry Ford as Self (archive footage)

Herbert Hoover as Self (archive footage)

J. P. Morgan as Self (archive footage)

John Kenneth Galbraith

Philip Bosco as Narrator

Reuben L. Cain as Self

Robert Sobel as Self