Mary Poppins keert terug in de betoverende en compleet nieuwe musical Mary Poppins Returns. In dit vervolg schiet Mary Poppins de Banks-familie na een tragische gebeurtenis opnieuw te hulp, om het plezier en de magie terug te brengen in hun leven.
During the Great Depression, Kate (Greer Robson) is a 13-year-old girl living on New Zealand's South Island. When her mother dies and her father is offered a job in Wellington on North Island, Kate is sent to live with an aunt. The girl runs away to find her father, hopping onto a boxcar and befriending a fellow fugitive, Patrick (Peter Phelps), an emotionally battle-scarred WWI veteran fleeing the authorities after injuring a repo man. Pretending to be father and daughter, Patrick and Kate use each other for cover as they make their way across New Zealand, sleeping under the stars and championing the rights of destitute farmers and homeless squatters whose fortunes have been wiped out by economic hardship.
Bowie, een jeugdige veroordeelde moordenaar, en de bankovervallers Chicamaw en T-Dub ontsnappen in de jaren dertig uit een ketenbende uit Mississippi. Ze sluiten zich aan bij een benzinestationbediende en gaan door met het beroven van banken. Bowie, die gewond raakt bij een auto-ongeluk, zoekt zijn toevlucht bij de dochter van de tankstationbediende, Keechie. Ze raken romantisch betrokken, maar hun relatie komt onder druk te staan door Bowie's weigering om de misdaad de rug toe te keren. De film is gebaseerd op de roman Thieves Like Us van Edward Anderson. De roman is ook het bronmateriaal voor de film They Live by Night uit 1949, geregisseerd door Nicholas Ray.
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.
The joyful life story of a depression era girl from Western New York. A unique part of Americana that reminds us all of the great bounty in this land of ours. A wonderful collection of photos and film that give us a good sense of what life on a Depression-era farm could be like - no electricity, no indoor plumbing, a wood stove for heating the house, and going off to a one-room schoolhouse every day - but it isn't a grim picture because the warmth and happiness of the family is very apparent