American ExperienceThe Crash of 1929
Directed by Ellen Hovde, Muffie MeyerTV-PG
S3 • E8 Nov 19, 1990 55mIn 1929, while the stock market was rising, there were few critics. It was a "New Era" when everyone could get rich. But it was a small group of bankers, brokers and speculators who by manipulating the stock market grew fabulously wealthy. The film captures the unbounded optimism of the age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th.
