During the height of the Great Depression a populist bank present is saved from financial ruin by his small depositors.

Folk singer Woody Guthrie tours Depression-era work camps and spreads his word by radio. …More

The story of boxer Jim Braddock, who defeated champion Max Baer in a winner-takes-all bout at a time when Americans were woefully in need of a hero. …More

As labor strikes break out throughout the country during the 1930's, the art and theater world of NYC is a growing cultural revolution. Nelson Rockefeller commissions Diego Rivera to paint the lobby of his headquarters, an Italian propagandist is giving away Da Vincis, and a young Orson Welles defies a court order to perform his controversial musical. Based on a true story. …More

This moving Depression-era social drama based on John Steinbeck's novel, follows the hopeful migration of works from the Oklahoma dust bowl through their subsequent disillusionment upon reaching California, the promised land. …More

A gambler backs a bare-knuckle brawler in Depression-era New Orleans. Directed by Walter Hill. …More

Set on a Depression Christmas Eve in 1933, this heart-tugging story centers around the Waltons. They're a rural American family preparing to celebrate Christmas together. Though times are tough, love and sharing are abundant in this family. …More

A 1930s country singer tries to reach Nashville sober, with his nephew, to audition at the Grand Ole Opry. …More

Runaway socialite Ellie Andrews is en route to the Big Apple to elope with a fortune-hunting flyboy. Along the way she meets crusty newspaperman Peter Warne, who's just been sacked and—unbeknownst to Ellie—plans to sell her story to get his job back. …More

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Hoping to get her hoodlum husband back, a desperate '30s woman kidnaps a politician's wife. …More

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In Chaplin's classic comedy of the Machine Age, a bolt tightener fails at everything but falling in love. …More

A Park Avenue socialite's new family butler is an incognito Austrian diplomat. …More

Ulysses Everett McGill escapes the chain gang with two fellow convicts, the simple and somewhat slow Delmar and ill-tempered Pete, to pursue the promise of hidden loot stashed in his house that is about to be swept away in a flood. On the way, the trio experience a journey filled with hilarious adventure and a cast of strange characters starting with a blind prophet who warns them that the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find." …More

Set in the bucolic Salinas Valley of California in the 1930's, this film paints a bold, vivid picture of life in the depression era and tells the tragic tale of George and Lenny, two itinerant farm hands searching for a safe haven from the cruelties of the world. …More

During the Great Depression Lenny, a simple-minded man, and his cunning cousin George drift from job to job, and find trouble they can't escape in the form of the foreman's sexy wife. …More

Moses Pray, a smooth-talking con man is driving through depression-era Kansas with a carload of deluxe bibles and a list of newly widowed prospects for his line when he meets up with Addie, a cigarette-smoking, nine-year-old orphan who shows Moses a thing or two about cons. …More

Dennis Potter's masterpiece mini-series follows the adventures, mishaps, and yearnings of a traveling song sheet peddler on a tight commission as he tries to make dreams fit the promises of the lyrics he carries. …More

In 1930's Southern U.S., a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends. …More

The rumors are true about a couple's new maid in 1935 Georgia. Directed by Martha Coolidge. From the Calder Willingham novel. …More

A sharecropper's wife keeps the family together after he goes to prison in 1930s Louisiana. Directed by Martin Ritt. …More

Hollywood director John Sullivan, tired of churning out comedies, decides to make a serious and socially responsible film about human suffering. Realizing he knows nothing of the subject matter, he hits the road as a hobo, where he finds a beautiful woman, and more trouble than he ever imagined. …More

Desperate people enter a dance marathon in Depression-era Chicago. Directed by Sydney Pollack. Best supporting Oscar for Gig Young. …More

The award winning story of a small child who learns that there is evil in world. Set in the backdrop of the South, during the Depression, a white woman accuses a black man of rape. And while he is obviously innocent only one man will step up to defend him. …More

A 1930s runaway joins a carnival man's horse high-diving act, headed for tragedy in Atlantic City. …More