| MUMBAI:
PBS's American Experience will premiere The 1930, a five-part mini-series
that examines America's response to the unprecedented economic crisis, high unemployment,
and environmental catastrophe that threatened the nation during one of history's
most tumultuous decades.
The series will be aired for over five consecutive Mondays from 26 October.
Beginning
with the stock market collapse in The Crash of 1929, the series looks at
the creation of FDR's Tree Army in Civilian Conservation Corps; the construction
of one of the greatest engineering projects of the modern era in Hoover Dam;
the impact of the catastrophic drought that transformed the plains in Surviving
the Dust Bowl; and an unlikely hero that gave downtrodden Americans hope in
Seabiscuit. "The
past offers us the opportunity to see the shape of human experience. As we navigate
through our current global recession, the likes of which we haven't seen in more
than 75 years, Americans can look to the '30s to help understand how we got here,
and where we may end up next," says American Experience executive producer
Mark Samels. | 
