Great Depression Movies

  • 1979
    An American Christmas Carol

    An American Christmas Carol

    An American Christmas Carol

    6.21979HD

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

    An American Christmas Carol
  • 2005
    The 12 Dogs of Christmas

    The 12 Dogs of Christmas

    The 12 Dogs of Christmas

    5.12005HD

    This holiday tale has all the elements of a classic heartwarmer--cuddly dogs, small town spirit, and even a full-fledged Christmas pageant. Set...

    The 12 Dogs of Christmas
  • 1972
    Sounder

    Sounder

    Sounder

    7.51972HD

    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...

    Sounder
  • 1957
    The Tarnished Angels

    The Tarnished Angels

    The Tarnished Angels

    6.8141957HD

    In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne,...

    The Tarnished Angels
  • 1981
    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    6.11981HD

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

    Pennies from Heaven
  • 1976
    Bound for Glory

    Bound for Glory

    Bound for Glory

    6.8971976HD

    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 All Come Out

    They All Come Out

    They All Come Out

    5.91939HD

    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...

    They All Come Out
  • 1935
    If You Could Only Cook

    If You Could Only Cook

    If You Could Only Cook

    7.41935HD

    An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

    If You Could Only Cook
  • 1991
    Wildflower

    Wildflower

    Wildflower

    6.11991HD

    One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive...

    Wildflower
  • 1932
    Blondie of the Follies

    Blondie of the Follies

    Blondie of the Follies

    6.31932HD

    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
  • 2003
    The Saddest Music in the World

    The Saddest Music in the World

    The Saddest Music in the World

    6.92003HD

    In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

    The Saddest Music in the World
  • 1939
    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    6.51939HD

    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
  • 1933
    Dancing Lady

    Dancing Lady

    Dancing Lady

    6.91933HD

    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...

    Dancing Lady
  • 1933
    Wild Boys of the Road

    Wild Boys of the Road

    Wild Boys of the Road

    6.81933HD

    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...

    Wild Boys of the Road
  • 1965
    The Vampire of Dusseldorf

    The Vampire of Dusseldorf

    The Vampire of Dusseldorf

    5.6361965HD

    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
  • 1987
    After the Promise

    After the Promise

    After the Promise

    7.51987HD

    Elmer Jackson, a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s, struggles to bring up his 4 young boys after the death of his wife. He is...

    After the Promise
  • 1965
    Yoyo

    Yoyo

    Yoyo

    6.9741965HD

    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...

    Yoyo
  • 1974
    The Last Angry Man

    The Last Angry Man

    The Last Angry Man

    71974HD

    In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility...

    The Last Angry Man
  • 1981
    Of Mice and Men

    Of Mice and Men

    Of Mice and Men

    7.51981HD

    George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always...

    Of Mice and Men
  • 1977
    Why Shoot the Teacher?

    Why Shoot the Teacher?

    Why Shoot the Teacher?

    6.41977HD

    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...

    Why Shoot the Teacher?