
1990
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)

The Donner Party

Oklahoma City

Ruby Ridge

The Polio Crusade

The Satellite Sky

The Rise & Fall of Penn Station

The Codebreaker

Fatal Flood

Cold War Roadshow

Triangle Fire

Casa Susanna

Ulysses S. Grant

American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)

The Wright Stuff

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

America

The Forgotten Plague

Reagan

Transhood

Panama Canal