Great Depression Movies

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

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

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying...

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

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.

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

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. De...

Threatened with separation, two young brothers escape from an orphanage and make a perilous journey from New York to Boys' Town in Nebraska.

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

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

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

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

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.

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

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 o...

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

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

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is vis...

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