Hoover Dam: American Construction Epic, 1931-1936

Hoover Dam: American Construction Epic, 1931-1936 (1989)

January 1st, 19890h 36min

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A 36-minute overview of one of mankind's greatest achievements. In the early 1930s, America was in the depths of a tragic economic depression. Yet the people of that troubled era constructed Hoover Dam, still one of the great wonders of the world.


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