Great Depression Movies

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

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. N...

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

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn t...

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

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

Two segments (“Thanksgiving Nightmare” and “Thanksgiving Dreams”) and several mini segments explore the traditions, fun, and excitement of the holiday...

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

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

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

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 o...

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

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

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 ev...

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

Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.

Following the death of his brother, Frederick attempts to write a screenplay, but can’t due to his ongoing battle with grief. His entire life is flip...

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 d...

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.