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Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three escaped convicts from the 1920s are led on an odyssey through the Old South in search of loot stashed at one of their homes. The house is scheduled to be flooded out by a new dam, so time is of the essence.
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...
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
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Red Stovall is a hard-drinking drifter who sings for his super in second-rate roadhouse bars through some of the loneliest, dustiest countryside ever ravaged by the Great Depression. Stovall, however, nurses the embers of a dream--to audition with the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
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
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era 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.
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.
9) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (192 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Farewell to Arms (1932): An American ambulance driver in the Italian Army in WWI falls in love with a British nurse. Meet John Doe (1941): Depression era story about a man down on his luck who is thrown into the public arena by unscrupulous forces.
11) Modern times
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
13) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (344 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years and 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.
14) Modern times
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
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.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On October 29, 1929 - Black Monday, large and small investors alike lost corporate and personal fortunes when the stock market crashed. This program examines the reasons behind the crash and whether the crash was predictable.
18) Of mice and men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special edition, widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the final war between Good and Evil looms, two powerful avatars divided by fate share one mission. For Ben Hawkins and Brother Justin, the race is on to find the elusive Henry Scudder, and the fate of the world depends on who finds him first.
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.
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