
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
Director: Andrea Kalin

Patricia Clarkson
Self - Narrator (voice)

Studs Terkel
Self
Stetson Kennedy
Self

Douglas Brinkley
Self
Jonathan Holloway
Richard Ford
Amy Bloom

Who Killed the Federal Theatre?
2003

The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America
2021

Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone
2009

Cycle of Memory
2022

Riding the Rails
1997

The Money Masters
1996

For Twenty Cents A Day
1979

THE WHOLE SHEBANG
2019

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006

These were the reasons
2011

Grand Coulee Dam
2017

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
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