The Crash of 1929

(1990)

Genres: Documentary, History

Year: 1990

Runtime: 55 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer

Cast: 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

Plot

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.