New Deal Movies

  • 1934
    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

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    An underground docudrama of the Depression, and rare surviving film from Chicago’s WFPL. The protagonist looks in vain for work, only to find...

    The Great Depression
  • 2017
    Grand Coulee Dam

    Grand Coulee Dam

    Grand Coulee Dam

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    During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It...

    Grand Coulee Dam
  • 1937
    We Work Again

    We Work Again

    We Work Again

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    The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized...

    We Work Again
  • 2009
    Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

    Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

    Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

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    In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With...

    Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
  • 2021
    The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America

    The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America

    The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America

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    Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately put all his campaign promises into...

    The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America