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"The Century: America's Time" 1920-1929: Boom to Bust (1999)



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Original Air Date:
1999 (Season 1, Episode 3)
Genre:
Plot:
In the prosperity of the 20's Americans begin to question their traditional values. Prohibition is enacted... See more » | Add synopsis »

Cast

 (Episode Cast)
William Jennings Bryan ... Himself (archive footage)
Richard E. Byrd ... Himself (archive footage) (as Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd)
Calvin Coolidge ... Himself (archive footage)
Clarence Darrow ... Himself (archive footage)

Ossie Davis ... Himself

Duke Ellington ... Himself (archive footage)
Lou Gehrig ... Himself (archive footage)
Lillian Hall Gerdau ... Herself

George Gershwin ... Himself (archive footage)
Ernst Heller ... Himself
Herbert Hoover ... Himself (archive footage)

Peter Jennings ... Himself - Host-Narrator
Charles A. Lindbergh ... Himself (archive footage)

Joe Louis ... Himself (archive footage)
Michael Matrinko ... Himself
Craig Mitchell ... Himself

Babe Ruth ... Himself (archive footage)
Giles Ryan ... Himself
John Thomas Scopes ... Himself (archive footage)
Bessie Smith ... Herself (archive footage)
Mickey Spillane ... Himself
John Updike ... Himself
Norman Vaughn ... Himself

Eudora Welty ... Herself

Series Cast
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Hermann Göring ... Himself - at the nuremberg trials (archive footage)
Rudolf Hess ... Himself - at the nuremberg trials (archive footage)
Hirohito ... Himself - atop his horse (archive footage)
Henry Villard ... Interviewee "Shell Shock, 1914-1919")
Robin Kelley ... Himself

Series Crew
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Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Todd Brewster  writer

Produced by
Peter Bull .... producer
 
Original Music by
Michael Bacon 
 
Cinematography by
Mark Gunning (lighting cameraman)
 
Film Editing by
Laurie Butler 
 
Production Management
Spiro Carras .... post-production supervisor
 
Sound Department
Michael Keenan .... sound mixer (multiple segments)
 
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Quotes:
Ossie Davis:[about the glory of Harlem in the 20s] If I had to choose between Heaven and Harlem, oh ho ho! Harlem would win every time.See more »

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