"1929"
1929
Thursday, October 24 : the Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century suddenly breaks out. Fueled by the idea that everyone can get rich without limits, it puts a final stop to the euphoria of the 1920s. America is then caught in a devastating cycle which spreads around the world a few months later like a m..
1929 : La Crise
A documentary exploring the causes of the 1929 Wall Street Crash.Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, shares crashed by a third on the New York Stock Exchange. More than $25 billion in individual wealth was lost. Later, three thousand banks failed, taking people's savings with them. Surviving eyewitnesses describe the biggest financ..
Hollywood chante et danse
L'entrée de MGM dans le cycle de toutes les étoiles revues de studio qui est venu avec l'avènement du son; il était de loin le plus populaire, bien que le déclin de quelques-unes des célébrités ...
The Crash of 1929
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.
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 1929-1943
Joined by the likes of saxophonist Ben Webster and trumpeter Cootie Williams, jazz giant Duke Ellington demonstrates in this collection of performance clips (spanning the years 1929-43) precisely why he's one of the seminal figures in American music. Ellington's musical evolution can be seen in excerpts from feature-length and short films that incl..
Miss Universe 1929 - Lisl Goldarbeiter. A Queen in Wien
Filmmaker Péter Forgács' engrossing documentary -- culled from home movies spanning eight decades -- chronicles the life of Austrian beauty queen Lisl Goldarbeiter: the first Miss Universe. Following her during her pageant days and through an imprudent marriage, the film also serves as a slice of European history, a diary of Jewish life under the..
1929: Women War
The Women's War was a 1929 revolt in British Nigeria, where a group of women took a stand against social and economic injustice. This historical drama follows the story of these women and their crusade.
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the brothers working in a slightly different vein than the one that would come to characterize their later work. This is the first section, which covers the pianist’s “French period” from roughly 1920-1939,..
The Silent Protest: Jerusalem 1929
On 26 October 1929, Palestinian women launched their women’s movement in Jerusalem and protested at the British High Commissioner’s bias against Arabs in the Buraq uprising.
Skinner 1929
In the fall of 2021, an obscure online channel streamed what has become the most talked-about mystery on the internet. This is that footage.
Sé que es imposible (1925-1929)
Chapter 6 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between 1925 and 1929.
They Paid with Bullets: Chicago 1929
Country bumpkin Frank runs into a gangland shooting, driving the victims to the gang's headquarters. He soon earns a place in Erik's mob. Syndicate head Big John wishes to unite the four gangs in Chicago, but Erik defies them, wishing to remain independent. An assassination attempt forces him to reconsider, and his gang isn't impressed with what th..
Bertha Boxcar
Pendant la Grande Dépression dans l'Arkansas, Bertha Thompson, une jeune fille ayant assisté à la mort accidentelle de son père provoquée par un employeur tyrannique, est réduite au vagabondage. Elle erre de ville en ville, au hasard des trains de marchandises qu'elle emprunte clandestinement, ce qui lui vaut le surnom de "Boxcar" (Fourgon à..
Meurtre à Hollywood
Situé à Hollywood à la fin des années 1920 durant la transition du cinéma muet au cinéma sonore, le réalisateur, producteur et directeur du studio Alfie Alperin veut produire un grand Western sur Wyatt Earp. Tom Mix obtient le rôle du marshal et le vrai Earp est sur le plateau en tant que conseiller technique. Mais avant qu'Earp et Mix puis..
