New Deal Movies
- 1934
The Great Depression
The Great Depression01934HD
An underground docudrama of the Depression, and rare surviving film from Chicago’s WFPL. The protagonist looks in vain for work, only to find...
- 2017
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam62017HD
During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It...
- 1937
We Work Again
We Work Again5.21937HD
The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized...
- 2009
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story02009HD
In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With...
- 2021
The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America
The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America72021HD
Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately put all his campaign promises into...