The Great Depression: The Road to Rockbottom
54m
Running Time
Plot.
As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unsold, farm mortgages were called in by banks, hungry farmers protested, and robberies increased dramatically. The U.S. Army was called in to defend the nation's capital from veterans. They were demanding that President Hoover and Congress pay a bonus for their services in World War I. The film ends with Franklin Roosevelt's landslide election to the presidency.
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Cast & Crew.

Terry Kay Rockefeller
Producer / Director / Writer

Herbert Hoover
Self

Douglas MacArthur
Self - Army Chief of Staff

Joe Morton
Self - Narrator

Gore Vidal
Self

Steve Fayer
Writer

Brian Keane
Composer
Details.
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