Using newsreels, dramatic archival photographs and footage, Hollywood films, and eyewitness accounts, THE GREAT DEPRESSION re-creates the time, from the end of the Roaring Twenties to the outbreak fo the Second World War, when economic forces, political change, and social turmoil transformed the nation. This series puts people at the center of historical events--not only well-known heroes and statesmen, but women and men whose everyday experiences bring the story of our nation's past to life for audiences today.

NOTE         Joe Morton.
NOTE         Executive producer, Henry Hampton.
NOTE         Using newsreels, dramatic archival photographs and footage,                    Hollywood films, and eyewitness accounts, this series re-creates the time from the end of the Roaring Twenties to the outbreak of World War II, when economic forces, political change, and social turmoil tranformed the nation.
NOTE         VHS format.