Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "stock-market-crash-1929"

1. The Artist (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell

Votes: 248,697 | Gross: $44.67M

2. Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Romance

The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie

Votes: 22,653 | Gross: $8.72M

3. The Colors of Fire (2022)

135 min | Drama, History

Paris, 1927. After the death of her father, Madeleine Péricourt should have inherited his financial empire but she fell prey to a conspiracy leading her to ruin. Now she will have her vengeance.

Director: Clovis Cornillac | Stars: Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alice Isaaz, Clovis Cornillac

Votes: 1,049

4. The Razor's Edge (1946)

Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter

Votes: 6,794 | Gross: $5.00M

5. Three on a Match (1932)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William

Votes: 4,396

6. Force of Evil (1948)

Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.

Director: Abraham Polonsky | Stars: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Beatrice Pearson, Marie Windsor

Votes: 7,673

7. The Century of the Self (2002)

59 min | Documentary

A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.

Stars: Adam Curtis, Robert Reich, Ann Bernays, Alfred Pritz

Votes: 6,365

8. The Money Masters (1996)

210 min | Documentary

The Money Masters is a 1996 documentary film that discusses the concepts of money, debt, taxes, and describes their development from biblical times onward.

Director: William T. Still | Star: William T. Still

Votes: 754

9. The Match King (1932)

Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama

Unscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where by trickery he gains control of his uncle's small match factory. By expert manipulation ... See full summary »

Directors: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Stars: Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell, Juliette Compton

Votes: 610

10. Yoyo (1965)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A man has everything: dozens of servants, a palace, vast woods, gardens, a lake, mechanical toys, private entertainment troupes of musicians and dancers. He has it all - but love. When ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: Pierre Étaix, Claudine Auger, Philippe Dionnet, Luce Klein

Votes: 1,684

11. The American Clock (1993 TV Movie)

92 min | Drama

This film is based on Arthur Miller's recollection of the events of the 1930s Depression. John Rubinstein, Mary McDonnell, and Loren Dean are all members of an upper class family who find ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Darren McGavin, David Strathairn, Felton Perry, Mary McDonnell

Votes: 115

12. The World Moves On (1934)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, History, Romance

Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone, Reginald Denny, Sig Ruman

Votes: 488

13. The Conquerors (1932)

Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Richard Dix, Ann Harding, Edna May Oliver, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 347

14. Lilly Turner (1933)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance

A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 530

15. Seven Days That Made the Fuhrer (2013 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History

We identify the seven key events that shaped Hitler's mind and ultimately culminated in his plans for world domination as he became one of the most powerful and deranged leaders the world has ever known.

Director: Alex Parkinson | Stars: Kerry Daynes, Frank McDonough, Estelle Lovatt, Richard John Evans

Votes: 11

16. The World Changes (1933)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance

An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat-packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Mary Astor, Aline MacMahon, Donald Cook

Votes: 527

17. We're Rich Again (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy

The wedding of their daughter brings many surprises, including a determined bill collector, a bad business venture, an elopement, and an unexpected windfall. They all add up to a barrel of one-liners and slap-stick.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Marian Nixon, Reginald Denny

Votes: 251

18. Three Cornered Moon (1933)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy

Nellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances, the family has been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. Friend and family doctor, Alan ... See full summary »

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland, Wallace Ford

Votes: 490

19. Fifty Years Before Your Eyes (1950)

Approved | 72 min | Documentary, History, Sport

Documentary about the major events of the first fifty years of the Twentieth Century.

Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Arthur Godfrey, Quentin Reynolds, H.V. Kaltenborn, Clem McCarthy

Votes: 21

20. Pourquoi l'Amérique (1970)

G | 100 min | Documentary

A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the United States to emerge by the end of World War II as a dominant world power.

Director: Frédéric Rossif | Stars: Françoise Christophe, Pia Colombo, Pierre Andrieux, Jacques Castelot

21. Heavy Metal (2000– )
Episode: P-38 Lightning (2004)

44 min | Documentary, History, War

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a radically new fighter plane design and the brainchild of now legendary aircraft designer Kelley Johnson. It's introduction to combat at the start of World ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Nelson | Stars: Jack Mullan, Tom Simms, Perry J. Dahl, Jack Purdy

Votes: 6

22. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: The Crash of 1929 (1990)

TV-G | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Examines the stock market crash of 1929 with interviews from descendants of several Wall Street insiders.

Stars: Philip Bosco, Reuben L. Cain, Calvin Coolidge, Rita Mitchell Cushman

Votes: 105

23. Modern Marvels (1993– )
Episode: The Empire State Building (1994)

TV-14 | 46 min | Documentary, History

This program focuses on the symbolic and historical aspects of the Empire State Building rather than its architecture and technology. The world's tallest building was preceded but a ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Thomas | Stars: Irwin G. Cantor, Brendan Gill, Lydia Ruth

Votes: 39

24. Babylon Berlin (2017– )
Episode: Episode #3.12 (2020)

TV-MA | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Litten remembers a legal loophole that could save Greta's life. Charlotte visits the inn mentioned in her mother's love letters. Wall Street crashes.

Directors: Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries | Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch, Lars Eidinger

Votes: 698

25. The Titans That Built America (2021)
Episode: Titans vs. FDR (2021)

86 min | Documentary

The Roaring Twenties come to halt as the Stock Market crashes. Just as the Titans' fight for dominance leaves its mark on the New York skyline, the Great Depression arrives.

Directors: Patrick Reams, Phillip Montgomery | Stars: Campbell Scott, Martin Horn, Neel Kashkari, Andrew Ross Sorkin

Votes: 37

26. Hitler's Bodyguard (2008– )
Episode: How Hitler's Bodyguard Worked (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History

Hitler's personal protection squad grew from a few fiercely loyal, handpicked SS paramilitary organization into an army with a complicated structure and intense internal competition.

Directors: Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus | Stars: Winston Churchill, Sepp Dietrich, Stephan Grothgar, Hermann Göring

Votes: 48

27. Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Episode: Down and Out (1981)

Biography, Drama, History

When the Tories lose their majority in Parliament, Winston loses his spot in the cabinet. Deciding to take the opportunity to feather his nest he goes to America on a speaking tour and invests the proceeds in a a pre-crash stock market.

Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Robert Hardy, Siân Phillips, Nigel Havers, Chloe Salaman

Votes: 20

28. Prohibition (2011)
Episode: A Nation of Hypocrites (2011)

TV-PG | 105 min | Documentary, History

With gangsters terrorizing the public and profiting from the sale of alcohol, many citizens believed Prohibition was unsuccessful, which led to its repeal.

Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Eig, Michael Lerner

Votes: 173

29. Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)
Episode: Le Führer (2011)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

Was the support of a politically polarized minority of the population all Hitler needed to maneuver the Nazi party from a position of moderate influence to control of the government or was there more?

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Richard Lintern, Doug Rand, Hans Baur

Votes: 138

30. Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode: Hans Kammler (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Hans Kammler's fingerprints can be found all over the Third Reich's most prestigious and deadly engineering projects, including rockets and concentration camps.

Director: Matt Bone | Stars: Paul B. Jaskot, Michael Allen, Nigel Jones, Karina Urbach

31. Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode: Ferdinand Porsche (2024)

Documentary, History, War

The designer of one of the most popular car brands in history, Ferdinand Porsche would not have seen his success without the support of Adolf Hitler.

Director: James Wright | Stars: Shalina Patel, Nigel Jones, Karl Ludvigsen, Guy Walters

32. Knowledgia (2019– )
Episode: The History of Pennsylvania in 13 Minutes (2024)

13 min | Documentary, Animation, History

A concise history of Pennsylvania beginning with the geological past that lead to its major industries explaining where Pennsylvania fits in American history.

33. Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013– )
Episode: 1929 - Year of Chaos and Crime (2013)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Crime

1929 was the year of chaos and crime that saw the St Valentine's Day massacre with the shooting of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side gang and the stock market crash.

Director: Kevin R. Hershberger | Stars: Coby Batty, Matt K. Baker, Todd Barsness, James Christopher Cooke

34. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode: The Fall of Rohm (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The financial crisis in the USA makes the Nazis look good. But in order to keep their new supporters they need to cleanse the party.

Director: Matthew Hinchcliffe | Stars: Guy Walters, Richard Overy, Toby Thacker, Michael Lynch

Votes: 214