Important films of The Great Depression era
(Digital History ID 3724)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Boys Town (1938)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
- King of the Hill (1993)
- Our Daily Bread (1934)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (1969)
- Wild River (1960)
- Biopics
- All the King's Men (1949)- Based on the life of Huey Long)
- Amelia Earhart (1976)
- Bloody Mama (1970)- about Ma Barker
- Bound for Glory (1976) - about Woody Guthrie
- Bugsy (1991)- about gangster Bugsy Siegel
- Dillinger (1945) (1973)
- Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
- Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
- Eleanor, First Lady of the World (1982)- about Eleanor Roosevelt
- Flight for Freedom (1943)- about Aviator Amelia Earhart
- Henry and June (1990)- about Henry Miller and Anais Nin
- Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
- Leadbelly (1976)
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
- Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
- Melvin Purvis, G-Man (1974)
- Pretty Boy Floyd (1960)
- The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
- Sunrise at Campobello (1960)- about Franklin D. Roosevelt
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