Our daily bread : and other films of the Great Depression

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Our daily bread (King Vidor, 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King V...

Our daily bread (King Vidor, 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair -- The River (Pare Lorentz, 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi River basin and the effort to restore this region -- The Plow that broke the plains (Pare Lorentz, 1936) focuses on the ecological and human tragedy of the Dust Bowl -- Power and the Land (Rural Electrification Administration), elevates the photogenic Parkinson family to iconic figures of Americana -- The New Frontier is a government documentary.

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