List of Movies - Great Depression

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  7.5
  The Boys in the Boat
  Based on Daniel James Brown's bestselling book, "The Boys in the Boat" is a captivating sports drama chronicling the University of Washington rowing team's journey to the 1936 Olympics. This inspiring true story depicts a group o...
   2023

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  1923
  1923 will follow a new generation of Duttons during the time of Western expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression. Release: December 2022.
   2022

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  6.2
  12 Mighty Orphans
  Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
   2021

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  4.8
  Serena
  In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when it is learned the his wife, Serena, cannot bear children.
   2014

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  7.5
  Bonnie and Clyde (TV)
  Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing spre...
   2013

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  The Dust Bowl
  TV Mini-series (5 episodes). Chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the br...
   2012

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  6.6
  Lawless
  LAWLESS is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant...
   2012

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  8.9
  The Artist
  Hollywood, year 1927. George Valentin is a very successful silent movie star. The arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career. Peppy Miller, a young woman extra, becomes a major movie star.
   2011

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  6.2
  Water for Elephants
  After losing his parents in a car accident, young veterinary school student Jacob meets and falls in love with Marlena, a star performer in a circus of a bygone era. They discover beauty amidst the world of the Big Top, and come t...
   2011

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  7.5
  Mildred Pierce (TV)
  Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.
   2011

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  8.0
  The Butterfly Circus
  At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the spirits of audiences along the way. During their travels they discover a man without l...
   2009

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  Redland
  As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
   2009

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  1929
  Thursday, October 24, 1929: the Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century suddenly breaks out. Fueled by the idea that everyone can get rich without limits, it puts a final stop to the eu...
   2009

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  6.3
  Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
  American Girl is a popular line of dolls and books for girls. While the doll line runs the gamut from pre-Revolutionary War to World War II, the film will focus on Kit Kittredge, who grows up in the early years of the Great Depres
   2008

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  7.6
  Cinderella Man
  The true story of James J. Braddock, a man who took up boxing in the 1920s depression so as to feed his family, and becoming famous in the process -- he was known as "Cinderella Man" because of his fairy tale win over po
   2005

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  7.4
  Seabiscuit, más allá de la leyenda
  "Seabiscuit," an American epic of triumph and perseverance set during the Great Depression, is based on the best-selling book that was one of the most popular and widely read non-fiction books of recent years. It is the story of t...
   2003

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  The Saddest Music in the World
  In 1933, in Winnipeg during the American Great Depression, the legless baroness of beer industry, Lady Helen Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini), promotes a contest to choose the saddest music in the world and find where the real d...
   2003

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  7.8
  Road to Perdition
  The Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John Rooney (Paul Newman). The mobsters close bond with Sullivan, however, leads Rooneys jealous ...
   2002

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  7.6
  O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recov...
   2000

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  Liam
  It's the 1930's and seven year old Liam is growing up in an Irish Catholic quarter across the Mersey River from Liverpool. He has a loving mother, his father's a responsible breadwinner and his older brother and sister are fond an...
   2000

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