Great Depression Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of...

A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.

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

A man comes to sit alone at an isolated bus stop. Followed by a stranger. Then they both converse about how they once killed someone.

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

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...

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

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

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

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

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

Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the...

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.

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