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The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America (2021)

Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately put all his campaign promises into action: it was time for the "New Deal". This bold plan, designed to turn around a nation on the brink of collapse, where unemployment was at an all-time high and the working poor were suffering from the precariousness of the job market, was intended to give hope to a country that had been battered before anything else. Once he came to power, the new president from the Democratic Party immediately passed some fifteen laws designed to revive the economy.

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Top billed cast

  • Photo of Stéphanie FatoutStéphanie FatoutNarrator (voice)
  • Photo of Julia BracherJulia Bracher(voice)
  • Photo of Jean-Gabriel NordmannJean-Gabriel Nordmann(voice)
  • Photo of Bruno PaviotBruno Paviot(voice)
  • Photo of Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage)

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