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1) Sounder
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the 1930s.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Publisher
New Line Home Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A young girl enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure, after her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001, c1984
Language
English
Description
It's the 1930's in Waxahachie, Texas. Against this Depression-torn background unforgettable characters meet and collide. Its emotionally gripping story centers around Edna Spalding (Sally Fields) and her unending struggle against extraordinary hardships.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
A 12-year-old girl leaves Chicago to search for her single father, who has gone to Washington State to look for work during the Great Depression. Along the way, she forms a close bond with two traveling companions, a protective wolf and a hardened drifter.
11) Honkytonk man
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1982
Language
English
Description
Red Stovall is a hard-drinking drifter who sings for his super in second-rate roadhouse bars through some of the loneliest, dustiest countryside ever ravaged by the Great Depression. Stovall, however, nurses the embers of a dream--to audition with the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
13) Serena
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newlyweds, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
�2010
Language
English
Description
As the final war between Good and Evil looms, two powerful avatars divided by fate share one mission. For Ben Hawkins and Brother Justin, the race is on to find the elusive Henry Scudder, and the fate of the world depends on who finds him first.
15) Hemingway
Publisher
[PBS Direct]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"HEMINGWAY examines the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers -- Ernest Hemingway. Intimate and insightful, the series weaves together Hemingway's biography with excerpts from his work. The film penetrates the myth of Hemingway to reveal a deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure."--
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Set on the Pacific Northwest railways at the height of the Depression, this is the story of how a crafty, train-hopping drifter, "A-No. 1," and his young accomplice encounter Shack, a sadistic railroad conductor who has sworn that no hobo will ride his train for free. "A" is ready to put his life at stake to become a local legend - as the first person who survived the trip on Shack's notorious train.
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