Great Depression Movies

Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.

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...

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless...

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

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

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

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers...

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

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

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

Guy and Ellen are desperate to find a way to get food and medicine for their sick child. Jobs are very hard to come by during the Great Depression...

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....

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

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

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

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

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...

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost...

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.