The Crash That Brought the World to Its Knees - 1929

The 1929 Crisis and the Great Depression | Documentary This is a documentary about the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed. We trace America's journey from postwar prosperity and a booming stock market fueled by credit and speculation, to Black Thursday, Black Monday, and Black Tuesday, when panic selling wiped out fortunes on Wall Street. This video explores how a financial crash on Wall Street turned into a global economic catastrophe: bank runs that destroyed the savings of ordinary families, the congressional hearings that exposed Wall Street's most respected bankers, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and the international consequences that helped destabilize democracies and fuel the rise of extremist movements in Europe. This is a serious historical documentary meant to give an accurate account of how a period of extraordinary confidence collapsed into the worst economic depression of the twentieth century, and what that collapse still teaches us about debt, trust, and financial risk. 🔔 Subscribe to Stick Teacher for more documentaries about the events, systems, and human decisions that shaped the world we live in. #GreatDepression #Documentary #History #StockMarketCrash #WallStreet #StickTeacher