Great Depression Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

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

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the...

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...

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

Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his...

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...

In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is...

Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession...

George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always...

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power...

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...

Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura Murdock decides not to marry the boy next door and instead accepts wealthy, older William Brockton's...

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...

A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of...

Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

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