Great Depression Movies

  • 1991
    Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

    Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

    Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

    7.41991HD

    A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a...

    Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
  • 1981
    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    61981HD

    During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school...

    Pennies from Heaven
  • 1976
    Bound for Glory

    Bound for Glory

    Bound for Glory

    6.8821976HD

    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...

    Bound for Glory
  • 1939
    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    6.1111939HD

    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...

    They Shall Have Music
  • 1965
    The Vampire of Dusseldorf

    The Vampire of Dusseldorf

    The Vampire of Dusseldorf

    5.61965HD

    A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.

    The Vampire of Dusseldorf
  • 1939
    Of Mice and Men

    Of Mice and Men

    Of Mice and Men

    7.31939HD

    An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

    Of Mice and Men
  • 1933
    Parachute Jumper

    Parachute Jumper

    Parachute Jumper

    6.11933HD

    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.

    Parachute Jumper
  • 1935
    One More Spring

    One More Spring

    One More Spring

    5.751935HD

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

    One More Spring
  • 1975
    Hearts of the West

    Hearts of the West

    Hearts of the West

    5.41975HD

    Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession...

    Hearts of the West
  • 1932
    Under Eighteen

    Under Eighteen

    Under Eighteen

    6.61932HD

    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....

    Under Eighteen
  • 1940
    The Great McGinty

    The Great McGinty

    The Great McGinty

    6.91940HD

    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...

    The Great McGinty
  • 1937
    The Go-Getter

    The Go-Getter

    The Go-Getter

    5.81937HD

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

    The Go-Getter
  • 1983
    Phar Lap

    Phar Lap

    Phar Lap

    7.21983HD

    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...

    Phar Lap
  • 1941
    Million Dollar Baby

    Million Dollar Baby

    Million Dollar Baby

    61941HD

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

    Million Dollar Baby
  • 1932
    Blondie of the Follies

    Blondie of the Follies

    Blondie of the Follies

    61932HD

    New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the...

    Blondie of the Follies
  • 1932
    American Madness

    American Madness

    American Madness

    71932HD

    Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery...

    American Madness
  • 1933
    She Had to Say Yes

    She Had to Say Yes

    She Had to Say Yes

    5.81933HD

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

    She Had to Say Yes
  • 1935
    Coronado

    Coronado

    Coronado

    31935HD

    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...

    Coronado
  • 2017
    The Eternal Road

    The Eternal Road

    The Eternal Road

    6.7382017HD

    Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930,...

    The Eternal Road
  • 1982
    The Day the Bubble Burst

    The Day the Bubble Burst

    The Day the Bubble Burst

    21982HD

    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.

    The Day the Bubble Burst