Results for Great Depression Era Tales Of Small Triumphs
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Three young siblings feel the effects of the Great Depression through their father's salary cut and change in mood. They hold a sales event to help their father which turns out to be a success.
A man recalls the story of a young family in a small town during the Great Depression who were forced to make ends meet in clandestine ways.
A man during the Great Depression gets a job. However, he is wracked with guilt as he watches other people less fortunate than him.
A two-week walk across state lines lands one man a dangerous job during the Great Depression.
A married couple tries to make ends meet for their hungry and sick children in the midst of the Depression but soon realize that sheer willpower cannot save them from the ruthless winter.
An impoverished thirteen-year-old boy growing up during the Great Depression gets into a serious fight with an older man over a fifty-cent coin.
An unemployed man struggles to help an equally penniless, yet shockingly beautiful, young woman in her search for food and shelter.
When the Great Depression hits a well-to-do family, an eighteen-year-old girl works at a ranch to put herself through college, enduring the difficulty of the work while also enjoying being away from the stifling environment of her home.
While their parents fight over the possibility of selling their family home during the Great Depression, two young sisters watch, and, in order to cope, one of the sisters forms a strong attachment to a stray cat in their neighborhood.
When a pipe repairman visits a Louisiana ranch during the droughts of the Great Depression, he encounters a recently widowed woman with dreams of exploring the country and a suspicious past.