
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.

Philip Bosco
Narrator
Reuben L. Cain
Self
William C. Durant
Self (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage)

Henry Ford
Self (archive footage)

Herbert Hoover
Self (archive footage)

John Kenneth Galbraith
J. P. Morgan
Self (archive footage)
Robert Sobel
Self

William Howard Taft
Self (archive footage)

Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage)

Casa Susanna
Casa Susanna

The Polio Crusade
The Polio Crusade

Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City

The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
The Rise & Fall of Penn Station

Fatal Flood
Fatal Flood

Cold War Roadshow
Cold War Roadshow

American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)
American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)

The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff

Ruby Ridge
Ruby Ridge

Triangle Fire
Triangle Fire

The Great San Francisco Earthquake
The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance