Films & Shows Set during the Great Depression

Every title set during the Great Depression, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen: Memoirs of a Geisha2005
Most recent: The Great Debaters2007

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FilmsSerieseach bar is the titles released that decade

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

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The Great Debaters
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Also runs throughAmerican Civil Rights Movement2 titles Space Race

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

12%2 of the 17 titles the archive sets between 1929 and 1939 carry the Great Depression tag.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

19291 of 3 titles set in 1929 carry this period
19300 of 1 title set in 1930 carries this period
19320 of 1 title set in 1932 carries this period
19340 of 1 title set in 1934 carries this period
19351 of 5 titles set in 1935 carry this period
19360 of 2 titles set in 1936 carry this period
19370 of 2 titles set in 1937 carry this period
19380 of 2 titles set in 1938 carry this period
19390 of 5 titles set in 1939 carry this period

9 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Drama2 · 50%
History1 · 25%
Romance1 · 25%

Share of the 4 genre taggings across 2 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

1Denzel Washington1 title3.7/5unsalted 2Rob Marshall1 title3.6/5unsalted

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

Periods before, during, inside and after Great Depression, with their year ranges, the years they share with it, the threads they share with it, and how many titles the archive holds of each.
Relation	Period	Runs	Shared years	Shared threads	Titles
Part of	Interwar Years	1918–1939	1929–1939	none shared	14 titles in the archive
Before	Roaring Twenties	1920–1929	1929	none shared	4 titles in the archive
Concurrent	Century of Humiliation	1839–1949	1929–1939	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Indian Independence	1885–1948	1929–1939	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Second Sino-Japanese War	1937–1945	1937–1939	none shared	2 titles in the archive
Concurrent	World War II	1937–1945	1937–1939	none shared	47 titles in the archive
After	Western Front (World War II)	1939–1945	1939	none shared	12 titles in the archive