depressions

In 1933 while running from a bad situation at home and suspected of having set fire to a barn, fourteen-year-old Ross finds haven with a loving family which helps him make an important decision.

During the Great Depression, while their father is away looking for work, eight-year-old Patrick and thirteen-year-old Roy create a machine to help their mother make ends meet, even as she is helping tramps.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

Examines the causes and conditions of the difficult economic times known as the Great Depression.

A gang of abandoned children, living together during the Depression in order to survive, is galvanized into action when a hobo kidnaps one of its members.

Chronicles the events leading to the depression of 1893, an economic slump surpassed only by that of the 1930's.

Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.

After their father's death, the three Stoddard girls travel with their mother back to the family farm where they struggle to survive during the Dust Bowl and put all of their faith in the success of a wildcat oil well.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Nilo Cruz set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where a new lector unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners.