The Great Depression (History Channel - 4 video set) [VHS]

The Great Depression (History Channel - 4 video set) [VHS]

The Great Depression (History Channel - 4 video set) [VHS]
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Actor: Calvin Coolidge, Erik Barnouw, Francisco Franco, Mario Cuomo, Pretty Boy Floyd
Producer: Bill Cosby
Producer: Charlie Maday
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 200 minutes
Release Date: 1998-06-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Studio: A&E Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of The Great Depression (History Channel - 4 video set) [VHS]

Movie Review: Nothing more depressing than Mario Cuomo
Summary: 5 Stars

The narrator was even more depressing than the event. Thank God those poor people didn't have to listen to Cuomo and go through economic depression at the same time

Movie Review: Great Depression or War on Business?
Summary: 1 Stars

First of all, why would you want to listen to a statist like Mario Cuomo talk about another statist FDR and his failed policies that only prolonged the depression. There needs to be a fresh documentary from someone that wouldn't have just worshiped FDR like so many people did. This excuse for a man hurt our country in so many ways.

Roosevelt either wanted to start a Stalinist revolution or he just didn't have a clue. Actually there is a copy of a letter where FDR wrote to his treasury secretary for help in filling out his taxes, this guy gets way to much credit for being even close to smart.

The one fact to remember about the Depression is that it ended only after Roosevelt's War on Business and Prosperity ended.

Movie Review: Pedestrian
Summary: 1 Stars

I was completely disappointed in this pedestrian rehashing of the story of the Depression...why must we see the same footage of breadlines and wall street panic that has been used countless times in documentaries since the 1950's...There MUST be fresh images and film that we haven't seen to death..how's about a little research!!!...anyway, it IS the story of that period in history but there is nothing fresh here!
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Summary of The Great Depression (History Channel - 4 video set) [VHS]

It was a time of dashed dreams and lost fortunes. But it also proved America's resilience hardship was met by hope, and tragedy answered with daring plans. From the stock market crash of 1929 to the recovery spurred by the coming of WWII, THE GREAT DEPRESSION is an illuminating look at a difficult age. See how Americans united in the face of despair escaping their troubles with dance marathons, helping each other out on the hard road from the Dust Bowl to California's promised land, and rallying behind the revolutionary policies of FDR's New Deal. Remarkable photos and footage capture the culture of hobos, mass media and radical politics that arose practically overnight, and friends, family and scholars examine the era's most influential figures, from Huey Long to "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Join host Mario Cuomo for the definitive portrait of THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
Necessity, as the saying goes, is the mother of invention, and at no point has a clich? been so prescient as in the 1930s. During that era, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal took documentation to new heights in U.S. history, turning artists and artisans into government-sponsored vehicles for reportage and representation of both American ideals and the harsher set of realities citizens were dealing with. And this four-volume set, narrated by the instantly recognizable Mario Cuomo, leverages many of the Great Depression's own media-savvy documentary advances to tell the period's varied stories. Volume 1 covers the pre-New Deal era, as desperation hit farm hands and businesses and bank patrons, bringing the U.S. economy to its knees. Latter-day celebs chime in on the period, with James Michener's tales of his own rail-riding striking powerful bolts through the episode. Volume 2 spotlights the spotlight, the way mass media developed around themes of escape and promised lands--some rising from earlier historical eras--that somehow managed to both cornerstone pop culture and elude the vast majority of radio listeners and filmgoers. Here is the place where the era's media is so integral to this set, offering that great historical lifeblood: primary documents. Of course, not everyone bought the media meal, and the theme for Volume 3 is popular resistance. From the riots that infamously bookended the Harlem Renaissance to bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd, discontent was grounds for wide upheaval. Of great interest here is the worker-led organizing that so clearly lies in the vanguard of contemporary labor history. Finally, Volume 4, "Desperate Measures" centers on a trio of events: the "Battle of Washington," where President Herbert Hoover ordered the vaunted Douglas MacArthur to forcibly remove World War I veterans who had marched on the capital; the rise of Louisiana's firebrand populist Huey Long into the state governor's mansion; and the onset of World War II. By far the most comprehensive treatment of the period, this set is also exhaustively long, making it a delight for patient viewers--and educators. It's also painstakingly organized and produced and warrants repeated viewings. --Andrew Bartlett

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