Great Depression Movies

A man comes to sit alone at an isolated bus stop. Followed by a stranger. Then they both converse about how they once killed someone.

Following the death of his brother, Frederick attempts to write a screenplay, but can’t due to his ongoing battle with grief. His entire life...

Two segments (“Thanksgiving Nightmare” and “Thanksgiving Dreams”) and several mini segments explore the traditions, fun, and...

A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the woman who lives there.

Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by...

Follows James Miller, an ambitious and industrious young man, learning to embrace his sexuality and romantic desires, while fighting to survive the...

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in...

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

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

For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pull America through the Great Depression and WWII....

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...

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take....

Threatened with separation, two young brothers escape from an orphanage and make a perilous journey from New York to Boys' Town in Nebraska.

Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and...

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock...

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...