1929

An account of the stock market crash of 1929.

Examines the causes and conditions of the difficult economic times known as the Great Depression.

Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.

An assessment of the political and physical dangers faced by the newly elected President Roosevelt in 1933 profiles such adversaries as would-be assassin Giuseppe Zangara and populist demagogues Huey Long and Charles Coughlin.

During the harshest year (1933) of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right-hand-man, Harry Hopkins, hired newspaperwoman Lorena Hickok to embark with her close friend, FDR's wife, Eleanor, on a journey to the hardest-hit areas of the country to report back to the president the degree of devastation Americans were coping with. Hickok's contribution to the policies of the New Deal were pivotal and her ill-fated relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt began to unravel after the trip.

Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.

A young girl enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure, after her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.

Ten-year old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of theman he believes to be his father--renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

The Joads abandon their dust-bowl family farm in Oklahoma during the Depression and migrate to the Promised Land of California, only to discover that the promises are empty.