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1) Sounder
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the 1930s.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventures as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
4) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
Series
Publisher
Dist. by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (194 min.) : mono. sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Our daily bread (King Vidor 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor. The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair. The River (Pare Lorentz 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi River...
6) Dreamland
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
A teen bounty hunter is torn between helping or capturing a seductive fugitive bank robber hiding in his small town during the Great Depression.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001, c1984
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the 1930's in Waxahachie, Texas. Against this Depression-torn background unforgettable characters meet and collide. Its emotionally gripping story centers around Edna Spalding (Sally Fields) and her unending struggle against extraordinary hardships.
10) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Formats
Description
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin?s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times?though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!)?is a timeless showcase of Chaplin?s untouchable...
11) Serena
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newlyweds, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers...
12) Riding the rails
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression, including interviews and archival footage of teens riding atop speeding trains.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (281 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of John Forbes Nash Jr., a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who learned to cope with his disease and win a Nobel Prize; story of Jim Braddock, a fighter during the depression who triumphs against all odds over heavyweight champ Max Baer in 1935.
14) Mildred Pierce
Pub. Date
c2012
Formats
Description
A young divorcee, Mildred Pierce, rises up out of poverty to become a successful business woman in spite of hardships and her selfish daughter. This five-part drama is an intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years, as she struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the...
15) The 1930s
Publisher
Distributed by PBS
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (267 min., 38 sec.) : sd., col., b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This collection of American Experience films examines America's response to the unprecedented threats facing the nation during one of history's most tumultuous decades-one that is increasingly a touchstone for our own.
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows five unemployed shipyard workers on the coast of Spain. Led by the cocky Santa, the men may be down on their luck but still encourage each other to search for work, love and the strength to hope for better days.
17) Honkytonk man
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Red Stovall is a hard-drinking drifter who sings for his super in second-rate roadhouse bars through some of the loneliest, dustiest countryside ever ravaged by the Great Depression. Stovall, however, nurses the embers of a dream--to audition with the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 12-year-old girl leaves Chicago to search for her single father, who has gone to Washington State to look for work during the Great Depression. Along the way, she forms a close bond with two traveling companions, a protective wolf and a hardened drifter.
Publisher
New Line Home Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young girl enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure, after her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (573 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Disc 1: First, Bill and Jack are railroad men. When Bill comes to stay with Jack and his wife, Bill and Lily fall in love. Jack confronts Bill about his suspicions and the two fight, leaving Jack seriously injured. Last, Joan Gordon is a singer tiring of her relationship with Eddie. She flees to North Dakota to become a mail-order bride. Happiness is threatened by her stubborn husband, a lecherous neighbor and the appearance of Eddie.
Disc 2: First,...
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