Great Depression Movies

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

During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to close its doors, unless the proprietor, William...

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.

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

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...