The Crash of 1929

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.

Top Cast

Philip Bosco

As Narrator

Reuben L. Cain

As Self

William C. Durant

As Self (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison

As Self (archive footage)

Henry Ford

As Self (archive footage)

Herbert Hoover

As Self (archive footage)

John Kenneth Galbraith

As

J. P. Morgan

As Self (archive footage)

Robert Sobel

As Self

William Howard Taft

As Self (archive footage)