Great Depression Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...

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

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...

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have...

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

During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers...

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 documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power...

Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.

Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching...

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...

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

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.