Films about the Great Depression

From the public domain, another Works Progress Administration film, 1937's Work Pays America:
archive.org/details/0610_Work_Pays_America_10_27_41_00


Thank God for the WPA!  You're not from the states, Dacron, but you've obviously done your homework. The WPA was the salvation of so many during the Depression, including those in the arts. Because of it, so many jobs were created for working people. And plays were produced by theater companies (including, among others Orson Welles - The Cradle Will Rock tells a bit of that story).  And notable writers wrote and notable photographers photographed (a great example is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men written by James Agee with photographs by Walker Evans). And composers composed, muscians played, dancers danced, and painters painted - all for pay! A stroke of genius at a time of grave financial distress in America.  I'm surprised no one has ever made a film about that endeavor - The Cradle Will Rock, yes, but it's too narrow. The big picture is so much more important.

Thanks so much for the link that shows some of what it was like in America during that terrible time..