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.

• Director: Ellen Giffard
• Cast: Philip Bosco, Reuben L. Cain, William C. Durant, Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, John Kenneth Galbraith, J. P. Morgan