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The Crash of 1929 (1990)
Directed by Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
Documentary, History · 55m
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.
Cast
Philip Bosco
Narrator
R
Reuben L. Cain
Self
W
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)
R
Robert Sobel
Self
William Howard Taft
Self (archive footage)
Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
- Writer
- Ronald Blumer
Details
- Release date
- 1990-11-19
- Runtime
- 55m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Middlemarch Films