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Series
Studio classic volume 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Shirley Temple volume 11
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
[Colorized version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A girl helps her Depression-poor father get a job after she befriends a cantankerous millionaire.
Series
Shirley Temple volume 15
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (69 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FDR appoints a Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up the American public. But when greedy industrialists who are profiting from the Depression thwart his every move, the Secretary begins to lose hope. That is, until he learns that some of the performances he has organized, including one by little Shirley Dugan, are lifting the nation out of its misery.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Kamp siblings expect a Christmas without presents. When their father scrapes together a dollar in coins to use for Christmas gifts, everything begins to change. Just when Norman and Ruthie believe their hopes and dreams are dashed, small miracles teach the true meaning of Christmas giving.
Series
Publisher
Film Preservation Associates
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (194 min.) : mono sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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 Mississippi...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (1,213 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Television series about the Walton family living on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In this season, The Blue Ridge chronicle hits the streets, with publisher John-Boy covering everything from a local break-in (Ben is among the suspects) to his eyewitness account of the crash of the Hindenburg; Mary Ellen becomes the first Walton child to marry; Jason works in a honkytonk; Grandma has a set-to with the minister.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (299 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of films starring Will Rogers with some of his most beloved performances.
Ambassador Bill: An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
David Harum: Rogers plays a small town banker in the...
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 9 hours) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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,...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (613 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drums along the Mohawk: Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
The grapes of wrath: Tom Joad returns from prison to find his homestead overwhelmed by weather -- and a greedy banking industry. Seeing virtually no work potential on the horizon of the Oklahoma dust bowls, the entire family packs up and heads for the promised land -- California.
How...
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : illustrated ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"[A]n enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore ... as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home."--Container.
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