373 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1930s
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American Pop
Kansas California The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sAll those years, all those dreams, all those sons... one of them is going to be a star. — The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.
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Under the Rainbow
California The 1930sWho knew so many little people would throw such a huge party? — In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.
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The Plouffe Family
Quebec The 1930sThe lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
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El Salvador: Another Vietnam
🇸🇻 El Salvador The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1940sThis political documentary illustrates the turbulent history of El Salvador from the 1920s-1970s, and the role of the U.S. government in that history. The most comprehensive film introduction to that country, examines the civil war there in light of the Reagan administration's decision to "draw the line" against "communist interference" in Central America. Archival material offers an overview of U.S. military and economic policy in Central America since 1948, while footage drawn from sources in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe provides extensive background to the current political and military situation.
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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
District of Columbia England The 1930sBEWARE! See this movie - An hour later you'll want to see it again! — Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.
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The Scarlett O'Hara War
California The 1930sThis is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
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The Long Days of Summer
Connecticut The 1930sA Season of Innocence Shattered by Hatred — A sequel to praised T.V. movie 'When Every Day Is The Fourth Of July': A Jewish attorney and his son battle anti-Semitism in pre-war New England. Generally well done.
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An American Christmas Carol
New Hampshire The 1930sCharles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film — In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
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F.I.S.T.
Ohio The 1950s The 1930sJohnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
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The One and Only
New York The 1950s The 1930sShe had to marry him. She was too embarrassed to have him as a date. — 1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected; most directors take offense at his free interpretation of his roles. Desperate, he tries in wrestling. To avoid getting beaten up he stages the fights - and incidentally invents show-wrestling.
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When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
Connecticut The 1930sA little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
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A Christmas to Remember
Minnesota The 1930sA city-bred grandson moves to his grandparents' farm during the Great Depression and grows up enough under their tough care to help his grandfather deliver a surprise gift on Christmas Eve to their community church with the help of a phantom stranger.
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Greased Lightning
Virginia The 1960s The 1950s The 1930sHe drove 'em wild! — This film is based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing champion in America.
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The Uncanny
California Quebec England The 1970s The 1930s The 1910sThey prowl by night...lusting for human flesh! — Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
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The Child
California The 1930sLet's play hide and go kill...! — A newly-hired housekeeper in a remote area is alarmed to discover that her boss's eleven-year-old daughter is using her supernatural powers to take revenge on the people she holds responsible for her mother's death, with the aid of her flesh-eating zombie 'friends'...
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
District of Columbia The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sNot all the files were destroyed — The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
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Why Shoot the Teacher?
Saskatchewan The 1930s"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else!" — It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
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Bound for Glory
Texas California New York The 1930s"This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land, From California to the New York Island. This land was made for you and me." — A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
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W.C. Fields and Me
New York California 🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940s The 1930sIn 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. While working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
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Leadbelly
Texas Louisiana The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sYou can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly! — The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
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Voyage of the Damned
🇨🇺 Cuba The 1930sIt lasted 30 days... You will remember it as long as you live. — A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Gable and Lombard
California The 1940s The 1930sThey had more than love...they had FUN! — A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
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Sounder, Part 2
Louisiana The 1930sPoor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
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At Long Last Love
California The 1930sIT'S THE TOP! A New Kind of Musical with 16 Great Songs! — Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
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The Day of the Locust
California The 1930sIt happened in Hollywood. But it could have happened in hell. — Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
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