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Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in boarders to make ends meet, 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, .
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
3) Paper moon
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years and struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce.
10) Cradle will rock
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A kaleidoscopic look at the extraordinary events of 1930s America, from high society to life on the streets in Depression-era New York City. Based on the events surrounding Marc Blitzstein's controversial musical about a steel strike, to be produced by the Federal Theater Program.
11) Of mice and men
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
13) Riding the rails
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Tells the unforgettable story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet ([32] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In this 'enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap' [-- Container], an elderly couple must move in with their adult children when they lose their home.
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