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

Two segments (“Thanksgiving Nightmare” and “Thanksgiving Dreams”) and several mini segments explore the traditions, fun, and excitement of...

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unsold, farm mortgages were called in by banks,...

In his first one hundred days in office, in a effort to stem the effects of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt created many new federal...

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....

Exploring the devastation of the 1930s, Lisa Jackson shapes amateur-shot archival film from a South Dakota town and audio interviews of residents who...

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

Set during the height of the Great Depression, a young man gets a job as a photographer and comes face to face with a test of his morals.

As the unemployed Frank is sinking into depression, his son's naive but optimistic twist on the situation could be Frank's way out.

Showcases incidents based on the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This mostly accurate privately produced biography of FDR is a cinema and...