Great Depression Movies

Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the...

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...

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

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

A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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