The Day of the Wall Street Crash | 1929: The Great Crash

01: The Roaring Twenties | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America

Ed Asner narrates a documentary examining the effects of Prohibition in America in the 1920s and 30s. T...

American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941 | History File

A history of America, 1917-1941, through the eyes of a variety of characters from the era.

05: Little Britain | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

The Wall Street Crash and the rise of fascist politics in Europe caused chaos in 1930s Britain.

07: Hoover Dam | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

Over one hundred people died when Frank Crowe tried to tame the Colorado River by building the Hoover Dam.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Icons

Paralysed from the waist down, FDR's bold social and economic reforms turned a country on the brink of catastrophe into a superpower, and h...

07: 19207: Great Escape | People's Century

The cinema excites, inspires and influences people seeking escape from their usually dull lives. Hollywood booms in the 1920s, and...

08: 1929: Breadline | People's Century

The economic boom of the roaring twenties comes to a sudden halt in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression. In the years after a dem...

09: Crime and Prohibition | Time to Remember

Material from the 50s newsreel documentary series Time to Remember tells the story of the media circus that surrounded gangsters...

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker achieve growing notoriety as they carry out a series of robberies with their gang in 1930s America.

S03E02: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre | Days That Shook the World

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.

The impact of the crash | 1929: The Great Crash

The immediate impact of the Wall Street Crash.

03: Boom and Bust | Twentieth Century History

History programme for schools narrated by John Tidmarsh. Today's programme looks at the 1920s, a prosperous time in the United ...

03: The Dry Crusade | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America

Examining the very beginnings of Prohibition from early colonial roots andnd the settlers of Kansas to the f...

Buy on margin | 1929: The Great Crash

An exploration of the use of buy on margin in the twenties in America.

Episode 1 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

Documentary showing 1920s America in colour for the first time.

Episode 2 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

A look at 1930s America using rare and unseen footage and in colour for the first time.

05: Roosevelt and the New Deal | Twentieth Century History

President F.D. Roosevelt attempted to solve America's economic problems in the 1930s with the New Deal. With the h...

06: 1924: On the Line | People's Century

Henry Ford uses Taylorism, division of labour and the assembly line to manufacture automobiles, and other industries in the United S...

Consumerism and liberty bonds | 1929: The Great Crash

An exploration of the consumerist culture of the roaring twenties in America.

Episode 6 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

The story of America’s criminal past, seen in colour for the first time using rare archive.