The Century: America's Time Boom To Bust (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV Episode | Documentary

The Century: America's Time

Boom To Bust (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV Episode | Documentary

The 1920s ushered in an era of great social change, general prosperity, Prohibition and what historians refer to as "modernity." We examine these great cultural changes and their effects on the nation.

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24 cast members

Name	Known for
William Jennings Bryan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Prohibition (1915)
Richard E. Byrd Self (archive footage) (as Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd) Self (archive footage) (as Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd) See fewer	With Byrd at the South Pole (1930)
Calvin Coolidge Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14 (1930)
Clarence Darrow Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	From Dusk to Dawn (1913)
Ossie Davis Self Self See fewer	Do the Right Thing (1989)
Duke Ellington Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Lou Gehrig Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Rawhide (1938)
Lillian Hall Gerdau Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
George Gershwin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Manhattan (1979)
Ernst Heller Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Herbert Hoover Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Public Be Damned (1917)
Peter Jennings Self - Host-Narrator Self - Host-Narrator See fewer	ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953)
Charles A. Lindbergh Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Joe Louis Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	This Is the Army (1943)
Michael Matrinko Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Craig Mitchell Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Babe Ruth Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Speedy (1928)
Giles Ryan Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
John Thomas Scopes Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	To Tell the Truth (1956)
Bessie Smith Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Angel Heart (1987)
Mickey Spillane Self Self See fewer	The Girl Hunters (1963)
John Updike Self Self See fewer	The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Norman Vaughn Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Eudora Welty Self Self See fewer	American Playhouse (1980)