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 film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with t...
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty ...
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...
Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his l...
Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We...
In his first one hundred days in office, in a effort to stem the effects of the Great Depression, Pr...
During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everyth...
Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevel...
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
Exploring the devastation of the 1930s, Lisa Jackson shapes amateur-shot archival film from a South ...
Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of ...
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...
The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this i...
As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unso...
Showcases incidents based on the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This mostly accurate priv...
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has...
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...
In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Mi...
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi...