Great Depression Movies
- 1986
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs6.61986HD
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his...
- 1972
Sounder
Sounder7.3951972HD
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for...
- 2017
The Eternal Road
The Eternal Road6.8922017HD
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930,...
- 1976
Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory6.7811976HD
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering...
- 1940
The Great McGinty
The Great McGinty71940HD
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...
- 1933
Dancing Lady
Dancing Lady71933HD
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...
- 1933
Man's Castle
Man's Castle6.91933HD
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
- 1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?5.71975HD
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
- 1982
The Day the Bubble Burst
The Day the Bubble Burst01982HD
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.
- 1933
Wild Boys of the Road
Wild Boys of the Road6.81933HD
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their...
- 1965
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
The Vampire of Dusseldorf5.61965HD
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
- 1995
Brothers' Destiny
Brothers' Destiny61995HD
Threatened with separation, two young brothers escape from an orphanage and make a perilous journey from New York to Boys' Town in Nebraska.
- 1933
Heroes for Sale
Heroes for Sale71933HD
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his...
- 1939
They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music5.91939HD
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in...
- 1974
Mame
Mame61974HD
The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick...
- 1939
They All Come Out
They All Come Out5.61939HD
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...
- 1983
Phar Lap
Phar Lap7.21983HD
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the...
- 1932
Prosperity
Prosperity51932HD
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
- 1935
One More Spring
One More Spring51935HD
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
- 1965
Yoyo
Yoyo7.0351965HD
The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an...