Great Depression Movies

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

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

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

A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the woman who lives there.

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

George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always wat...

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

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

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility an...

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

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...

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

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 be...

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

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...

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for mon...

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...

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

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