Great Depression Movies
- 1931
The Easiest Way
The Easiest Way5.31931HD
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation...
- 2007
Disappearances
Disappearances4.72007HD
Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching...
- 1934
Two Alone
Two Alone71934HD
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like...
- 1974
The Last Angry Man
The Last Angry Man01974HD
In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility...
- 1930
See America Thirst
See America Thirst01930HD
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
- 1981
The Plouffe Family
The Plouffe Family6.71981HD
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
- 1942
Juke Girl
Juke Girl6.51942HD
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers...
- 1996
The Money Masters
The Money Masters7.31996HD
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power...
- 1935
Show Kids
Show Kids01935HD
During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to close its doors, unless the proprietor, William...
- 1933
Three-Cornered Moon
Three-Cornered Moon51933HD
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock...
- 1938
Young Fugitives
Young Fugitives11938HD
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
- 1930
The Rounder
The Rounder5.51930HD
A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the woman who lives there.
- 1932
Down To Earth
Down To Earth71932HD
Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.
- 1934
Woman Unafraid
Woman Unafraid51934HD
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
- 2022
Cycle of Memory
Cycle of Memory02022HD
Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his life... until Mel lost his memory to Alzheimer's....
- 1997
Riding the Rails
Riding the Rails5.51997HD
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers...
- 2005
FDR: A Presidency Revealed
FDR: A Presidency Revealed02005HD
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....
- 1972
Awake and Sing!
Awake and Sing!01972HD
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...
- 1930
The Hard Guy
The Hard Guy6.11930HD
Guy and Ellen are desperate to find a way to get food and medicine for their sick child. Job are very hard to come by during the Great Depression...
- 2009
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story02009HD
In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With...