If someone came up to me and said, "Hey, you watch 1920s history documentaries all day with me," I'd say, "You just became my bestie."

My paternal grandparents crashed, but didn’t burn. They lost one of two houses, grandpa lost his Wall St. job, but grandma who had graduated high school and two years of business and secretarial school found work in furniture store doing shipping orders. Grandpa took several part-time jobs, Half time and all day Saturday in a hardware store as a stock boy. He also did day labor, whatever he could find. Their two widowed parents moved in with them and they rented out the third floor attic to an even poorer family. They kept the house and went without a car for a time. They kept it, but didn’t use it because of the cost of gas and maintenance. Their diet changed, but nobody went hungry. My mom’s family, in the other hand, were among those whose 1920’s weren’t “roaring.” They had arrived from Poland just before the war, with no marketable skills except manual labor. Grandpa took day labor jobs and grandma did washing and cleaning for “rich” people. When the stick market crashed, the rich were no longer able to pay laundresses and cleaners. Unskilled construction workers resorted to roaming the streets for usable trash, like wood and bits of coal to burn. In 1930, grandpa left in search of work and was never seen again. Grandma got evicted with three children and a few bags of clothes and broken down furniture onto the streets in Brooklyn. Not knowing what to do, she took some meager savings and rode the Long Island Railroad to the summer community of Rocky Point. There, they lived in an old Army tent in the woods and she found work cleaning the Post Office and for the local doctor, his offices and his house. The Depression didn’t affect them as much as they’d always been poor, so it was more of the same, only now they could raise some vegetables, pick wild berries, harvest chestnuts, and eventually kept chickens.

Oh look, we are in the roaring 20's again! And it all seems so familiar!😂

That clip of Mussolini crossing his arms to look tough makes him look like a toddler. Makes me laugh every damn time.

The "Roaring Twenties" are usually characterized as having been a prosperous time. However, this ignores the plight of the farming community, particularly small family farms. The farmers were suffering from chronically low prices for their products plus draughts and floods.

Actress Barbara La Marr married 5 times and died at 29. Just wow. This certainly gave Zsa Zsa her inspiration

We skipped the roaring 20's and moved straight to the great depression.

History as always will repeat, with that being said "Here we ARE"!!

Thanks awesome documentary 👍🏾 would like more content like this please thanks again!!

That cop hit a dude with his coat. Lol, strange weapon to deter a rioter but okay.

During the segment discussing jazz, the dancers are doing the jitterbug .That style of dancing didn't happen for another 15- 20 years.....

Superb! Watching it again, a lot to take in, going around the world! Very well done! Thank you!

Yep history repeats

For "boomers" this is our parents generation that experienced the depression and WW2. The greatest generation as Tom Brokaw wrote about it.

That’s comedian and all-around smart guy Fred Allen, giving the occasional narrative.

I couldn't imagine living every day with so much hate in my heart.

1929 all over again.

The American narrator of part of this program is none other than Fred Allen.

I have an old leather blackjack from the 1920s. It belonged to my great grandfather who was a small town constable. He only ever used it on unruly drunks

This is fantastic.

1920's : Roaring Twenties 2020's : Boring Twenties

Ah… the “Lindy” hop for Charles Lindbergh’s achievement…thank you!

If you can't pay your debts, you shouldn't have had them in the first place. Money printing in the twenties should have taught us a lesson but here we are again today at the brink.

Thanyou! ❤

43:47 Wow..... Even back then. They came to the exact same conclusion.

Rich people didn't want to pay taxes back then either. Just tuck tail and leave your country, to save yourselves and your money. While throwing everyone else under the bus.

People: "The 2020s are gonna be awesome! Roaring 20s all over again!" Me: "Yeah you don't know much about recent history, huh?"

Yay another history video with a side of predatory ads

The birth of the Tom Brokaw MYTH ‘The greatest Generation‘

I still dance the Charleston. Cant drink bathtub gin though.

I thought that was a very entertaining video 👍🏾

The narrator of the old film portions (e.g. 10:05) sounds a lot like radio comedian Fred Allen.

We are in the 2nd roaring 20s.

Even now, in the early part of the mid 2020's, whenever I mention "The '20s" nearly everyone thinks I'm referring to the 1920's, unless I say otherwise.

Most amusing comment (32:34) : a British Lord's Day Observance Society tour of Europe found "frivolity, hilarity, betting, gambling, excitement, revelries". So they had a very good time.

Margin calls, the Federal Reserve, pleasure and materialism .

It appears that the world was neurotic back then and still is today.

Watching this programme you would think that the Southern Hemisphere never existed. No mention of South America, Africa, Australia, or New Zealand.

Yes just got finished watching documentary of the roaring twenties and yes it seems all too common especially 2007 and 8 in the, they did exactly in 2008 what they did in 1929 and that was to freeze credit and it dropped everything and broke the world and then they repeated the same mistake about 100 years later

100% of the time, the markets always crash after a Fed Rate cut. Usually the rate cut triggers a brief market euphoria then pop goes the weasel as the bubble bursts. When they cut rates it’s because they have confirmed stuff is hitting the fan economically. So just wait for the Fed rate to happen.

Too bad censorship department works overtime and blurs out scenes time and time again.

3020’s signing in🫡

2020 vision bright shadow, feels like north ice berk, i supposed ill use the opposite end of the flash light tree too see a shadow now

The Lindbergh film announcer sounded like Vin Scully but he would have been too young.

“Make America Safe For Americans” sounds familiar..

Watch the Roaring Twenties 1939 James Cagney movie.

Same old narratives, blame the same old people.

The FED, the Creature From Jekyll Island, purposely caused the great depression.

What was the "employment rate" during the Great Depression?

Anyone who trusts anything is a fool.

Trickle down economics doesn't work.

The comment about the people escaping into fantasy is so apropos to our current society. Here, we are 100 years later, and we're repeating many of the same mistakes. Will America survive this time?

Non alter articles

The roaring 20s always meant the style of popular culture to me. I don't relate the term to politics.

Gave up after the 20th commercial. I guess I will never know which was longer.... the adds or the completely chopped up show. What was I watching anyway?....It was something about history or something like that...right? Probably won't be subscribing to this channel...the commercial channel.

So unabridged capitalism is a bad thing? Too bad that lesson hasn't been learned well since the "Great Depression"

I just love historical videos that are censored!!! Might as well censor the whole thing!! And yes I know it's ut and their censoring rules! But really, what's the point of even airing the video?? I refuse to give a thumbs up for censored historical content!! How I despise ut!

And the USA 🇺🇸 seems increasingly in decline from 2021-now

Your soundtrack is too damn loud! I gave you a thumbs down. Can't hear the narrator because he's overwhelmed by your annoying background soundtrack which is too loud!

Geez. So how many billions of QE II's likenesses are about the world? Postage stamps, currency, coinage, souvenirs... 🙄 And I'd like to hear one of these British documantarians dare criticize the past queen or the current king and say they aren't always right.

Because daddy was a punk lol

11:11 but this is still dull

''Don't tell my Mother that I'm a banker. She thinks I play piano in a brothel.'' 'Fitting today as well, perhaps also for their political allies, all avoiding action on human caused climate change as well as global strife and inequity! 😔 🌊 🧊 ❄️🌪🔥 📛 🔥🌪❄️ 🧊 🌊 🙁

22:47 that's enough shit for me. I do not need to hear al Johnston pretend he's a black man singing jazz

Out of a population of three million only two thirds of population dad is not handsome ......so crooked fellows got all the ........job done and ........disappointed dad without a card .......i mean ...no one really wants to pay dad who is not as handsome as your dad ?? So .......the story is endless if people are not handsome !!!!!

Catherine, and I'll prepared and 98% of the money in 2% of people's hands, GREED we could gon...and on...

Hedonism unbridled. Anything and everything except what God wants for people.

Capitalism isn't working because capitalists are SO GREEDY!

Man without God is a beast.

WHY IS THIS SO DAMN DULL

The dancing in that Harlem club wuz amazing..but y erbody hating on jazz music I'm not a big fan but rock n roll sucks too so wat

This year will mark the 95th Anniversary of The Great Depression. Why is it that whenever the nation is in an economic tailspin, a Republican was in the White House? 😕

Very weird documentary. I was interested in the subject but very oddly executed. It’s all over the place. Pass!

I love listening to an English bloak telling about American History. Aren't there any Americans that make documentaries!??? It's just not right. Like having a german narate the history of the battle of the bulge .... Spreken Ze dutche niscf gut

The Boomers have really done a great job! Not

Only music worse than jazz is 1940s music. Oh gawd that horny ass big band sound is torture

Joe Biden's America

Jazz didn't become cool until the fifties. I agree that the annoying piano rattle is as toxic as today's rap music. Piano rags have to be the worst.

I avoid anything about the twenties cause jazz sucks. So im trying to hamg in there. But the first sound of a stupid jazz band im leaving

I hate the 20s cause they always play god awful jazz music. Jazz is damn horrible. At least they aren't playing that crap

Nothing like getting the skinny all fired up, global chaos is not a good thing.

Every time I see a photo of Trump, it reminds me of Benito Mussolini. Look and compare.