In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With the Federal Writers' Project, the government pitted young, untested talents against the problems of everyday Americans. From that experience, some of America's great writers found their own voices, and discovered the Soul of a People. — Spark Media
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...
Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We...
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...
Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of ...
Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his l...
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...
During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everyth...
This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where...
A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with t...
The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this i...
Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevel...
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty ...
In his first one hundred days in office, in a effort to stem the effects of the Great Depression, Pr...
Showcases incidents based on the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This mostly accurate priv...
Exploring the devastation of the 1930s, Lisa Jackson shapes amateur-shot archival film from a South ...
A documentary covering the planning, construction, and legacy of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unso...
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi...
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...