Great Depression Movies

In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With th...

It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a o...

Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.

As the unemployed Frank is sinking into depression, his son's naive but optimistic twist on the situation could be Frank's way out.

At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the spirit...

Exploring the devastation of the 1930s, Lisa Jackson shapes amateur-shot archival film from a South Dakota town and audio interviews of residents who...

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film d...

In his first one hundred days in office, in a effort to stem the effects of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt created many new federal agencie...

Set during the height of the Great Depression, a young man gets a job as a photographer and comes face to face with a test of his morals.

During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to close its doors, unless the proprietor, William Jenki...

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for mon...

A documentary covering the planning, construction, and legacy of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unsold, farm mortgages were called in by banks, hungry...

Showcases incidents based on the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This mostly accurate privately produced biography of FDR is a cinema and po...