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27 June 2010
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“Hoover Dam”
During the Great Depression, Americans built the Hoover Dam, overcoming technical challenges to erect one of the greatest engineering works in history.
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727
22 June 2010
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“Surviving the Dust Bowl”
The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas dreaming of prosperity, and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death.
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724
14 June 2010
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“The Civilian Conservation Corps”
One of the most popular New Deal programs, the CCC put three million young men to work in camps across America during the height of the Great Depression.
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722
8 June 2010
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“The Crash of 1929”
The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th, ultimately leading to the Great Depression.
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719
6 June 2010
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“Riding the Rails”
At the height of the Great Depression, more than a quarter million teenagers were living on the road in America, many criss-crossing the country by illegally hopping freight trains.
This film tells the story of ten of these teenage hobos -- from the reasons they left home to what they experienced -- all within the context of depression-era America.
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