Great Depression Movies
- 1991
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken7.41991HD
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...
- 1981
Pennies from Heaven
Pennies from Heaven61981HD
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...
- 1976
Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory6.8821976HD
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...
- 1939
They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music6.1111939HD
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...
- 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.
- 1939
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men7.31939HD
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
- 1933
Parachute Jumper
Parachute Jumper6.11933HD
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.
- 1935
One More Spring
One More Spring5.751935HD
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
- 1975
Hearts of the West
Hearts of the West5.41975HD
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...
- 1932
Under Eighteen
Under Eighteen6.61932HD
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....
- 1940
The Great McGinty
The Great McGinty6.91940HD
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...
- 1937
The Go-Getter
The Go-Getter5.81937HD
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
- 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...
- 1941
Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby61941HD
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
- 1932
Blondie of the Follies
Blondie of the Follies61932HD
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...
- 1932
American Madness
American Madness71932HD
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery...
- 1933
She Had to Say Yes
She Had to Say Yes5.81933HD
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have...
- 1935
Coronado
Coronado31935HD
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...
- 2017
The Eternal Road
The Eternal Road6.7382017HD
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930,...
- 1982
The Day the Bubble Burst
The Day the Bubble Burst21982HD
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.