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    Cinderella Man (2005)

    Despite a string of losses and injuries, boxer Jim Braddock (Russell Crowe) makes a dramatic...

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    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)

    After a hobo boy is accused of a string of robberies in Depression-era Cincinnati, a girl (Abigail...

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    Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

    Based on Neil Simon's play about a gullible Jewish teen (Jonathan Silverman) and his working-class...

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    Paper Moon (1973)

    A 1930s con man (Ryan O'Neal) teams up with a precocious 9-year-old (Tatum O'Neal) who could be his...

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    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

    Poor sharecroppers the Joads (Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell) leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better...

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    Togo Tanaka

    Togo Tanaka appeared in the TV show The Great Depression.

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    Patricia Garcia-Rios

    Patricia Garcia-Rios worked in Production on TV shows such as America's War on Poverty, The...

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    Sydney Fine

    Sydney Fine was a Consultant for the TV show The Great Depression.

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    Paul Boatin

    Paul Boatin appeared in the TV show The Great Depression.

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    Douglas Fraser

    Douglas Fraser worked in Sound on TV shows such as Return to Eden and Fortune Dane and the movie...

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    Steve Fayer

    Steve Fayer was a Writer for TV shows such as Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads...

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    King Zog

    King Zog appeared in the movie The Great Depression.

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    Michael Dick

    Michael Dick worked in Locations on movies such as The Firm and Stanley and Iris and TV shows...

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    King Leopold

    King Leopold appeared in the movie The Great Depression.

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    Susan Nickerson

    Susan Nickerson was a Consultant for movies such as Zodiac and Being John Malkovich and TV shows...

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    Father Divine

    Father Divine appeared in the movie The Great Depression.

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    Megan Barnett

    Megan Barnett produced movies such as Witchcraft II: The Temptress and Dr. Hackenstein and the TV...

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    Bugsy Malone (1976)

    A spoof of classic gangster movies with a cast of children. The violence is limited to pies in the...

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    Charley and the Angel (1973)

    During the Depression, a crotchety shopkeeper is visited by an angel, who shows him what will happen...

  • Where the Red Fern Grows picture
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    Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)

    An Ozarks boy (Stewart Petersen) listens to his grandfather (James Whitmore) and saves up to buy two...

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    Investigating Sex

    An arrogant filmmaker, two artists (Dermot Mulroney, Alan Cumming) and a British student gather with...

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    Starlight Hotel (1988)

    The story of a young girl's search for her father and the runaway boy she befriends along the way.

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    The Emperor of the North Pole (1973)

    Two 1930s hobos (Lee Marvin, Keith Carradine) try to ride a brutal conductor's (Ernest Borgnine)...

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    12 Dogs of Christmas

    In a town where dogs are banned, a Depression-era girl (Jordan-Claire Green) plans a holiday pageant...

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    His Private Secretary (1933)

    A minister's granddaughter (Evalyn Knapp) tames a tycoon's playboy son (John Wayne).

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    Of Mice and Men (1939)

    Based on John Steinbeck's novel about the relationship between a migrant worker and his slow-witted...

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    Tobacco Road (1941)

    Erskine Caldwell's once-scandalous novel Tobacco Road resulted in an equally steamy stage play by...

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    A Bronx Morning

    A classic experimental documentary, a "city symphony" exploring the Bronx one morning during the...

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    Redland

    As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's...