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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Dressler

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Regis Toomey

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Priscilla Lane

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lucile Gleason

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Vaughn

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Matthau

During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to close its doors, unless the proprietor, William...

Genre: Family

Cast: Arthur Aylesworth

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bud Cort

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Blake

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Wilcox

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Parker

Guy and Ellen are desperate to find a way to get food and medicine for their sick child. Job are very hard to come by during the Great Depression...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Parker

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

Genre: Action

Cast: Harry Langdon

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wynne Gibson

In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patricia Clarkson

Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his life... until Mel lost his memory to Alzheimer's....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alex Leff

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat Hingle

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Thomas

For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pull America through the Great Depression and WWII....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Herrmann