New Deal Movies

An underground docudrama of the Depression, and rare surviving film from Chicago’s WFPL. The protagonist looks in vain for work, only to find ‘no help...

During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It wou...

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

Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately put all his campaign promises into a...

The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depi...