Can anyone recommend me some movies on the Great Depression?
Thanks.
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BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? is a great "sampler" of films about the depression. It's a doc that uses newsreel and movie clips to tell the story of the Depression.
BOUND FOR GLORY is also a good movie with a depression background.
I second "King of the Hill" and also suggest you look at films made during the Depression. Many were musicals and comedies, but all in some way touched on the misery of the masses.
Slightly peripheral to it is Preston Sturgess's great "Sullivan's Travels", which all screenwriters should see at some point in their careers.
There is an R2 DVD of King of the Hill available, if you have a region-free player. Another good film set during the depression is Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.
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