It is a whitewash.
It opened with the false myth of a Wall street guy jumping out the window. Friedman and Schwartz long ago looked at the death rates and checked news paper reports and there is ZERO evidence of any more suicides or Wall Street types killing themselves due to the crash. Heck the NYTimes did not call the stock market crash one of the top stories of 1929 in its end of the year review that year.
Then they neglect the admiration the American left had for the national socialists in Italy and Germany.
The History Channel is fun to watch. But it is biased left wing history and always slanted.
I miss the gulf war and world war 2 channel as history once was. I also miss when A & E was a higher brow channel.
Yup, FDR was initially hailed as “The American Mussolini”