The Great Depression

Films

• Of Mice and Men (Netflix)
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Paper Moon (1973; Netflix)
• The Sting (1973; Amazon Instant)
• King of the Hill (Netflix)

Documentaries:

• The Great Depression
• Ken Burns: Jazz - Episode 4 - The True Welcome: 1929-1934 (Amazon Instant)
• Ken Burns: Jazz - Episode 5 - Swing: Pure Pleasure: 1935-1939 (Amazon Instant)
• Ken Burns: Jazz - Episode 6 - Swing: The Velocity of Celebration: 1937-1939 (Amazon Instant)

Books

 

UPPER ELEMENTARY - MIDDLE SCHOOL

 

Nonfiction:

• Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman
• A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk: A Boy's View of the Great Depression by Robert J. Hastings
• A Penny's Worth of Minced Ham: Another Look at the Great Depression by Robert J. Hastings 

Historical Fiction

• A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck 
• Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Nowhere to Call Home by Cynthia DeFelice - teenage hobos
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - Dust Bowl

HIGH SCHOOL - ADULT

 

Nonfiction:

• Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939 by Frederick Allen Lewis (HTML, PDF) (1940)
• The Aspirin Age: The Essential Events of American Life Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1941 ed. by Isabel Leighton - Essays (1976)
• The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 by W.E. Leuchtenburg (1958)
• The Age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941 by Dixon Wechter (1948)
• Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy
• Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley

A lengthier list of nonfiction titles can be found here.

 

Historical Fiction:

• If I Have Four Apples by Josephine Lawrence
• One More Spring by Robert Nathan
• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
• Triumph of Willie Pond by Caroline Slade
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren