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.

• Ronald BlumerWriter
• Ellen GiffardDirector
• Muffie MeyerDirector

• Philip BoscoNarrator
• Reuben L. CainSelf
• William C. DurantSelf (archive footage)
• Thomas A. EdisonSelf (archive footage)
• Henry FordSelf (archive footage)
• Herbert HooverSelf (archive footage)
• John Kenneth GalbraithCast
• J. P. MorganSelf (archive footage)
• Robert SobelSelf
• William Howard TaftSelf (archive footage)
• Calvin CoolidgeSelf (archive footage)