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  2. Category:Great Depression films - Wikipedia

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    Films set during the Great Depression (1929-1939) or depicting its effects. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C.

  3. Ironweed (film) - Wikipedia

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    The story is set during the 1930s Great Depression. Francis Phelan, a washed-up and retired baseball player, deserted his family in the 1910s after accidentally dropping his infant son, causing the child's death. It is implied that Francis was drunk at the time, but he claims he was just tired and fails to understand why no one believed him.

  4. Hard Times (1975 film) - Wikipedia

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    Hard Times, also known as The Streetfighter, [a] is a 1975 action drama sport film marking the directorial debut of Walter Hill.It stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, a mysterious drifter freighthopping through Louisiana during the Great Depression, who proves indomitable in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches after forming a partnership with the garrulous hustler Speed, played by James Coburn.

  5. Places in the Heart - Wikipedia

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    The film follows Edna Spalding, a young woman during the Great Depression in Texas who is forced to take charge of her farm after the death of her husband and is helped by a motley bunch. Places in the Heart premiered at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival , where it competed for the Golden Bear , while Benton won the Silver Bear for ...

  6. Sounder (film) - Wikipedia

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    Sounder is a 1972 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt and adapted by Lonne Elder III from the 1969 novel by William H. Armstrong. [4] The story concerns an African-American sharecropper family in the Deep South, who struggle with economic and personal hardships during the Great Depression.

  7. The Grapes of Wrath (film) - Wikipedia

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    Noah's departure from the family is passed over in the movie. Instead, he simply disappears without explanation. In the book, Floyd tells Tom about how the workers were being exploited, but in the movie he does not appear until after the deputy arrives in Hooverville. Sandry, the religious fanatic who scares Rose-of-Sharon, is left out of the ...

  8. Annie (1982 film) - Wikipedia

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    Set during the Great Depression in 1933, the film tells the story of Annie, an orphan from New York City who is taken in by America's richest billionaire, Oliver Warbucks. Principal photography took place for six weeks at Monmouth University in New Jersey in 1981.

  9. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken - Wikipedia

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    In 1932, Sonora Webster lives with her sister, Arnette, and abusive Aunt Helen during the Great Depression. Sonora admires a magazine clipping of a beautiful girl in Atlantic City. Aspiring to be like her, she cuts off her waist length hair, causing her Aunt to make her wear a bag on her head.

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