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Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
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
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Three convicts escape the chain gang to find a stolen treasure, but end up having a series of strange adventures.
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Defines and helps children explore the terms Gold Rush, Great Depression, Industrial Revolution and more. Divided into segments, the program is designed to reinforce and support a child's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Viewers will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts, providing a model for how to appropriately use the words....
8) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
9) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Newly orphaned Addie falls into the care of a small-time con artist and turns out to be better at it than he is. Set in Depression-era Kansas.
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.
10) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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 complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
♭1947.
Language
English
Description
The folks who live in the teeming tenements lining Manhattan's Tenth Avenue could sure use an angel. And they have one Flavia Mills, a little girl with big dreams who touches the lives and hearts of everyone in her run-down neighborhood.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student (Robert Pattinson) and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era (Reese Witherspoon) 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 (Christoph Waltz).
15) Serena
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
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...
16) King of the hill
Series
Criterion collection volume 698
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
King of the hill: Set in St. Louis during the Depression, it follows the daily struggles of a resourceful and imaginative adolescent who, after his tubercular mother is sent to a sanatorium, must survive on his own in a run-down hotel during his salesman father₂s long business trips.
Underneath: A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
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.
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
How did the Great Depression begin? What happened in the United States during the Great Depression? What was the New Deal? How did the Great Depression end? The answers to all of these questions are covered with detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment to reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
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