Film

Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

2009 · 1h 32m · Documentary

IMDb

7.2

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

Patricia Clarkson

Self - Narrator (voice)

Studs Terkel

Self

Stetson Kennedy

Self

Douglas Brinkley

Self

Jonathan Holloway

Richard Ford

Amy Bloom

• Andrea KalinDirector
• Andrea KalinProducer
• Joy GalaneExecutive Producer
• Joseph VitarelliOriginal Music Composer

Release date

September 6, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Documentary

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