Focus on the 30's ..Part 1 and 2

Year Published: 1981

Complete Record: HARD TO USE MORE THAN VERY SHORT SNIPPETS BECAUSE OF CLOSED CAPTIONING TITLES BLOCKING LOWER THIRD. Focus on America as it lurched from the Great Depression to a world war. Along the way, it shows the heady optimism of the New Deal, public works programs that changed the face of the nation, the birth if organized labor, and the rise of organized crime. Also features the golden age of baseball, Jesse Owens and Joe Louis, the movies and the pinball machine, Communism and Facism, and a world in the tightening grip of chaos.