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"'The Crash of 1929' kicks off PBS package 'The 1930s'" . USA Today, October 26, 2009 ............................................................................................................................................................ To help viewers better understand the Great Recession, PBS' American Experience series is revisiting the Great Depression with a five-part documentary package The 1930s, starting Monday night (9 ET/PT, times may vary). Similarities between the '30s and the current economic crisis — plunging stock prices, high unemployment rates, mounting government debt and two untested presidents — make revisiting that decade compelling TV, says American Experience executive producer Mark Samels. "We can look to the 1930s to help understand how we got where we are today and how we move forward," Samels says. Four of the documentaries, which examine the political, cultural and economic upheaval during one the country's most turbulent decades, have aired before. Tonight's The Crash of 1929 premiered in 1990 and was last broadcast after Wall Street's 2008 meltdown; Hoover Dam (Nov. 9) and Surviving the Dust Bowl (Nov. 16) premiered in the late 1990s; race-horse documentary Seabiscuit (Nov. 23) first aired in 2003. But paired with the previously unseen Civilian Conservation Corps (Nov. 2), this is the first time PBS has packaged them as a series. Director Robert Stone's Conservation Corps traces the biggest early program of Roosevelt's New Deal. Stone's 2009 Earth Days examined the early roots of the environmental movement; Corps follows a similar path. While focusing on the massive federal program's jobs initiative that provided jobs for more than 3 million unemployed men, Stone also shows the CCC's impact in revitalizing land stripped bare before and during the Dust Bowl. "What's forgotten is how ravaged the country had been over the prior 200 years," Stone says. "Most of the forests and been cut down in the East and South. We were losing topsoil at an alarming rate. Putting together jobs and (reclamation-project) programs was a win-win." Corps is told through the eyes of four CCC veterans and augmented by Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. "Roosevelt managed to pull off the fastest mobilization in U.S. history, putting 250,000 to work just three months after he was in office. Even though they were paid only a $1 a day, it gave men a sense of worth," Alter says. "With the exception of Social Security, it was probably the most popular program of the New Deal." Corps is the latest of more than 250 biographical and historical documentaries produced under the American Experience umbrella since the 1980s, which PBS says are among the most-watched and longest-running on TV. The key? "Distilling topics down to compelling stories about character, drama and conflict," Samels says. "It's a combination of storytelling and history — a good yarn with some meat on the bone." ............................................................................................................................................................... usatoday.com