Movie

Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

2009 1h 32m Released

Documentary

In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With the Federal Writers' Project, the government pitted young, untested talents against the problems of everyday Americans. From that experience, some of America's great writers found their own voices, and discovered the Soul of a People. — Spark Media

Cast

Patricia Clarkson Self - Narrator (voice) Studs Terkel Self S Stetson Kennedy Self Douglas Brinkley Self J Jonathan Holloway R Richard Ford