Workers Film and Photo League

An underground docudrama of the Depression, and rare surviving film from Chicago’s WFPL. The protagonist looks in vain for work, only to find...

Release : 1934.06.13
Popularity : 1.771

One of the key works in creating the American social documentary film, this 1934 newsreel compilation crams a lot of information into just 11...

Release : 1934.01.01
Popularity : 0.962

The film shows the National Unemployment Council Hunger March of Nov. and Dec. 1931, which set out from disparate parts of the U.S. to represent...

Release : 1932.01.31
Popularity : 0.098

A newsreel that documented widespread hunger and protests against government policy.

Release : 1931.12.31
Popularity : 0.001

Bonus March shows unemployed WWI veterans marching on Washington, D.C., demanding their bonus money, and being forcefully evicted.

Release : 1932.12.01
Popularity : 0.001

The only known film record of the mass march and meeting held in Detroit on Feb. 4, 1932, against hunger and unemployment. Also shows the dramatic...

Release : 1932.07.01
Popularity : 0.001

A document of the 1932 national hunger march on Washington produced by the Workers Film and Photo League.

Release : 1933.01.02
Popularity : 0.001