1930s Movies

Presents the history of the U S from the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt to the eve of World War II, including the Great Depression and New Deal...

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

The heroes of this story, based on real events at the end of the 1930s and during World War II, face and dismiss the illusions of intellectuals about...

A documentary short on logging during winter season.

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

Montreal, December 31, 1933. Inside the storefront window of the grand Ogilvy store, a young worker watches passersby with envy. Tonight, she has...

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, where he shoots his third film, a very...

Czech drama film.

Poetic story of a proletarian couple's relationship in the years of economic crisis and unemployment.

The cartoon's main character is a girl living in the times of the Famine and personally experiencing all the terrors of this major crime against...

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

In 1939, driven by a desire for fame and fortune English amateur Tommy Godwin cycled a world record 75,065 miles in one year setting out from home...

A biopic of Anna May Wong, the Golden Age icon whose career brought her international recognition even as she continued to face opportunity...