Summary: George and Serena Pemberton (Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper and Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence), love-struck newlyweds, begin 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2015
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Summary: The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS-Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MODSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PAPSummary: Canadian family drama set in the small mining town of New Bedford during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Follows the lives of the members of the Bailey family as they live through a period marked by hardship and uncertainty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Wi 1Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Water 2011Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAT RATED PG-13Summary: Through another hard year of the Depression, season three details the Walton family's discovery that the true richness in life comes from the joy they bring each other, while fans also relive John-Boy's first year at college. Includes all 25 episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: Red Stovall is a Depression-era rascal whose fire-in-the-belly passion comes from the whiskey he slugs and the dream he chases, singing at the Grand Ole Opry. He takes off on a drive from Oklahoma to audition in Nashville with nephew Whit along to help keep the car on the road and Red on the straight and narrow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HONSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIL NOT RATEDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MILSummary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME RATED GCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AmCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Kit 2008Salenger, Meredith
Summary: A young girl has many adventures with a wolf in Depression-era America as she runs away from her guardian in Chicago to join her father, who has gone to look for work in Washington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Video 2002
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOUSummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009
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Summary: Tells the story of an African American boy, his dog, and his family overcoming adversity in Depression-era Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SOUFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADSummary: Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression and a fledgling writer whose observations are filled with the growing-up lessons and love he receives from his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: 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 and her unending struggle against extraordinary hardships.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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Summary: In Depression-era North Carolina, a man struggles to maintain control of his timber empire, which becomes more complicated when he discovers his wife cannot have children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SER RATED RSummary: After a year of heartache and hardship, Honey plans a new life for herself setting up a new beauty shop and finding a new husband. They rally to face the the difficulties of the Great Depression with humor and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Wi 2Summary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrapesSummary: FDR appoints a Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up the American public. But when greedy industrialists who are profiting from the Depression thwart his every move, the Secretary begins to lose hope. That is, until he learns that some of the performances he has organized, including one by little Shirley Dugan, are lifting the nation out of its misery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh 15Odets, Clifford
Summary: A portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of the Depression years.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2010