Great Depression Movies

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

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

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....

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

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...

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

Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.

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

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

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...

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.

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

In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef...

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...

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

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

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.

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...