Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

7.1

Seabiscuit

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

2003-07-22 | en

7.0

The Latino List

Documentary film interviews leading Latinos on race, identity, and achievement.

2011-09-29 | en

8.5

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.

2008-05-15 | en

7.3

The Money Masters

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money.

1996-01-01 | en

7.2

12 Mighty Orphans

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

2021-06-18 | en

5.7

Riding the Rails

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers relay the experiences and painful recollections of these now-elderly survivors of the rails. Forced to travel more by economic necessity than the spirit of adventure, the film's subjects dispel romantic myths of a hobo existence and its corresponding veneer of freedom. Riding the Rails recounts the hoboes' trade secrets for survival and accounts of dank miseries, loneliness, imprisonment, death, and dispossession. Sixty years later, the filmmakers transport their subjects back to the tracks, where the surging impact of sound and movement resuscitates memories of a shattered adolescence and devastating rite of passage.

1997-01-01 | en

7.2

Phar Lap

Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.

1983-08-11 | en

6.8

King of the Hill

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.

1993-08-20 | en

7.1

Chuck Norris vs Communism

In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.

2015-11-12 | ro

0.0

FDR: A Presidency Revealed

For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pull America through the Great Depression and WWII. From his legendary Fireside Chats to his sweeping New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt revolutionized the American way of life. FDR: A Presidency Revealed examines one of history's most compelling figures. Inspired by his cousin Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to the nation's highest office during the depths of one of its darkest periods. A man of few words, he brought a nation together through his revolutionary Fireside Chats. He introduced vast reforms like Social Security and work relief for the unemployed. At the same time, his administration hid a dark underbelly teeming with covert maneuvers, spy rings, and powerful enemies.

2005-04-17 | en

0.0

The Weight

The film follows Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer, Murphy only wants to escape and regain custody of his daughter, Penny, but becomes entangled in Clancy’s perilous gold smuggling scheme, facing threats from both the treacherous wilderness and potential betrayal within his own group.

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7.0

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

Hollywood is a town of tinsel and glamour; but there is another Hollywood, a place where maverick independent exploitation filmmakers went toe to toe with the big guys and came out on top.

2001-04-02 | en

7.6

My Voyage to Italy

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.

1999-09-11 | it

0.0

Painting with Light

An examination of the great advances in cinematography achieved by Jack Cardiff.

2001-01-01 | en

6.9

Rewind This!

Home video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. This film traces the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad aspects of society that were altered by the creation of videotape.

2013-08-27 | en

7.8

The Wind Rises

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

2013-07-20 | ja

7.1

Universal Horror

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.

1998-10-08 | en

6.2

40,000 Years of Dreaming

Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."

1996-11-23 | en

6.6

Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

A documentary capturing the modern day VHS culture and VHS collectors.

2013-04-05 | en

6.0

Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underworld with brute force and corrupting many touchable individuals. Until the day the head of the Untouchables Brigade, Eliot Ness, entered the scene. Since then, a cruel battle between the two of them began, a battle that ended in trial, conviction, disease, insanity and death.

2009-03-29 | fr

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

The lean, mean 30's, when America laughed… to keep from crying!

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Laverne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Fred Astaire

Warner Baxter

Wallace Beery

Brooks Benedict

Constance Bennett

Jack Benny

Busby Berkeley

Irving Berlin

Willie Best

Herman Bing

Joan Blondell

Humphrey Bogart

Fanny Brice

Joe E. Brown

James Burke

James Cagney

Eddie Cantor

Hobart Cavanaugh

George Chandler

Charlie Chaplin

Spencer Charters

Winston Churchill

Mae Clarke

Betty Compson

Gary Cooper

Jackie Cooper

Joan Crawford

Bing Crosby

Frankie Darro

William B. Davidson

Cecil B. DeMille

John Dillinger

Walt Disney

Marie Dressler

Tom Dugan

Margaret Dumont

James Dunn

Irene Dunne

Jimmy Durante

Nelson Eddy

Cliff Edwards

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bill Elliott

Madge Evans

Alice Faye

Stepin Fetchit

W.C. Fields

Errol Flynn

Dick Foran

Gerald Ford

Preston Foster

Kay Francis

Clark Gable

Judy Garland

Janet Gaynor

George Gershwin

Benny Goodman

Cary Grant

Woody Guthrie

Oliver Hardy

Jean Harlow

George 'Gabby' Hayes

Katharine Hepburn