Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
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1hr
32mins
Directed by
Andrea Kalin,
Joy Galane,
Starring
Patricia Clarkson,
Studs Terkel,
Stetson Kennedy,
Douglas Brinkley
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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