Great Depression

The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or "depression") that ran from 1929 to approximately 1939. It led to numerous bank failures, high unemployment, as well as dramatic drops in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), industrial production, stock market share prices and virtually every other measure of economic growth. It is generally considered to have bottomed out in 1933, but it was not until well after the end of World War II before such indicators as industrial production, share prices and global GDP surpassed their 1929 levels.

Films and TV

• Cradle Will Rock, Director: Tim Robbins, 1999
• The Grapes of Wrath, Director: John Ford, 1940
• The Journey of Natty Gann, 1985
• Of Mice and Men, filmed three times - in 1939, 1981 and 1992
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Director: Sidney Pollack, 1969
• The Crash of 1929 -- PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/crash/index.html
• Carnivàle (2003-2005) fictional account of Depression era television series produced by HBO
• Dogville 2003, Director:Lars von Trier