Great Depression Movies

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

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

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

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

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like...

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

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

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take....

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

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

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

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

Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.

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...

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

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

A virtuous and innocent young woman uneasily gives in to the lavish attentions of a "sugar daddy" but then finds true love with a newspaperman her...

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

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.

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...