373 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1930s
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Race
Ohio 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930s The 1940sThe incredible true story of gold medal champion Jesse Owens — Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
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Café Society
New York California The 1930sAnyone who is anyone will be seen at Café Society. — The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
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Maudie
Nova Scotia The 1950s The 1930sTriumph epitomizes adversity — Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
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The Chosen
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1930sOrders are not to be questioned. Orders are to be executed. — Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
New York 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1940s The 1930sBefore Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
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Eisenstein in Guanajuato
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1930sIn 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.
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The Age of Adaline
California The 1930s The 1960s The 2010sLove is timeless. — After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
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Bessie
Tennessee The 1930s The 1920sSurvival began with a song — The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
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The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
Vermont 🇦🇹 Austria The 1930s The 2010sAgathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United States.
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Serena
North Carolina The 1930s The 1920sSome loves can never let go. — North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, 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 way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
New York England 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 2010sOne Final Night to Save the Day. — When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
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Get on Up
Georgia New York Massachusetts 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe Funk Don't Quit — A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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The Vancouver Asahi
British Columbia The 1930sWinning is not about where you’re from—it’s about how well you play. — In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of their Caucasian counterparts. But one thing made their lives worth living: baseball. They may be the underdogs, but the Vancouver Asahi baseball team have a sense of fair play and smart tactics that set them apart from the brute force of their opponents. Under the guidance of new team captain Reggie Kasahara, can they be able to rise above all the negativity to win the tournament? This film is based on the true story of Vancouver Asahi, the Japanese-Canadian baseball team that was inducted into The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.
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The Lone Ranger
California Texas The 1930s The 1860sNever Take Off the Mask — The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
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The Butler
Alabama California Georgia Tennessee District of Columbia The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 2000sOne quiet voice can ignite a revolution. — A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
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Mad Ship
Manitoba The 1930sBound by hope. Driven by passion. — A poor young Scandinavian immigrant couple winds up in Canada in search of prosperity, but the hardship of the Great Depression takes a toll in a way they never feared when they went in search of the dream.
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Teenage
England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe birth of youth culture — Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect on the previous half-decade.
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Lawless
Virginia The 1930sWhen the law became corrupt, outlaws became heroes. — Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
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Cloud Atlas
California Hawaii Scotland England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1970s The 1930s The 2010s The 1840sEverything is Connected — A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
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Hyde Park on Hudson
New York The 1930sThe President. The First Lady. The King. The Queen. The Mother. The Mistress...One weekend would unite two great nations...After cocktails of course. — The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇪🇸 Spain The 1940s The 1930sWe were good in war. And when there was no war, we made our own. — Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
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Keye Luke
Washington California The 1930s The 1940sKeye Luke: Artist, Actor, and the First Pioneer. — KEYE LUKE is a short film bio-pic about pioneering Actor and Artist Keye Luke, the first, original on-screen Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet decades before Bruce Lee and also the All-American "Number One Son" in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s.
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The Artist
California The 1930s The 1920sA breath of fresh vintage air — Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
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The Whisperer in Darkness
Vermont Massachusetts The 1930sWritten in 1931, H.P. Lovecraft's iconic genre-bending tale of suspense and alien terrors is brought to life in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s like Frankenstein, Dracula and King Kong. Using its Mythoscope™ process — a mix of vintage and modern techniques — the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society expands on Lovecraft's original tale while still bringing you unparalleled authenticity. Horror and science fiction collide in the adventure of Albert Wilmarth, a folklore professor at Miskatonic University, as he investigates legends of strange creatures rumored to dwell in the most remote mountains of Vermont. Wilmarth’s investigation leads him to a discovery of horrors quite beyond anything he ever imagined, and ends in a desperate attempt to escape the remote New England hills with his life and sanity intact.
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J. Edgar
District of Columbia The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1980sThe most powerful man in the world. — As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
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