Great Depression Movies

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

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

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

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

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.

In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs....

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

Showcases incidents based on the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This mostly accurate privately produced biography of FDR is a cinema and...

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

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

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