The Great Depression(1993)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1993-10-25
Average Runtime: 54m
Rating: 10.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 7
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.
Seasons & Episodes
Miniseries
Episodes: 7E01
A Job at Ford's
Air Date: 1993-10-25
Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most importan...
E02
The Road to Rock Bottom
Air Date: 1993-10-25
As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unsold, farm mortgage...
E03
New Deal, New York
Air Date: 1993-11-01
In his first hundred days in office, President Roosevelt created many new federal agencies giving jobs and relief to ...
E04
We Have a Plan
Air Date: 1993-11-01
By 1934 challenges to the New Deal came from both sides of the political spectrum. In California Socialist Upton Sinc...
E05
Mean Things Happening
Air Date: 1993-11-08
In the American democracy of the 1930s two visions of liberty collided as working men and women battled landowners an...
E06
To Be Somebody
Air Date: 1993-11-08
Many Americans, struggling to survive the Great Depression, were determined to help build a better America through di...
E07
Arsenal of Democracy
Air Date: 1993-11-15
By 1939 Americans were still struggling to end the Great Depression. Their dreams of peace and prosperity were celebr...
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