The Great Depression
A 7-part series telling dramatic and diverse stories of struggle and survival during the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. From the producers of Eyes on the Prize, this series was met with critical acclaim and won both an Emmy Award for writing and a duPont-Columbia Award.
Episodes
Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming America...
As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unsold, farm mortgages were called in by banks, hungry...
In his first hundred days in office, President Roosevelt created many new federal agencies giving jobs and relief to people and transforming the Ameri...
By 1934 challenges to the New Deal came from both sides of the political spectrum. In California Socialist Upton Sinclair ran for Governor promising t...
In the American democracy of the 1930s two visions of liberty collided as working men and women battled landowners and factory managers for the right...
Many Americans, struggling to survive the Great Depression, were determined to help build a better America through direct action in the courts, in the...
By 1939 Americans were still struggling to end the Great Depression. Their dreams of peace and prosperity were celebrated at World's Fairs in New York...
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