PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The People, Yes
This video [6:19] from American Masters: "The Day Carl Sandburg Died" examines Carl Sandburg's epic poem, "The People, Yes." Published at the height of the Great Depression, Sandburg was inspired to write "The People, Yes" for those hit...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Financing the American Family
How the Household Finance Corporation helps working families with installment loans during the Depression.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Depression Life in Philadelphia
Shops, monuments, and people are shown during the depression in North East Philadelphia. This commercial was produced by the Mayfair Businessmen's Association.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Frontiers of the Future
This film made during the Great Depression was an attempt to calm fears of the future by presenting how scientists were hard at work trying to solve the problems of the universe.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Depression Scenes Britton, S. D.
Daily life in a South Dakota town during the Great Depression is captured in these home movies shot by Ivan Besse betwen 1938 and 1939.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: President Franklin Roosevelt
President Roosevelt helped lead the U.S. out of the great depression and through most of World War II until his death in 1945, not long after his re-election to his 4th term. [1:00]
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Plow That Broke the Plains
This short acclaimed documentary shows the Great Plains at the time of the Great Depression and how they were reduced to what became known as the Dust Bowl. [26:00]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Federalism Pt. 22: The Great Depression Changes Federalism
Discusses how grants-in-aid came to be used during the Great Depression, as people increasingly depended on the federal government to help them survive.
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #33: The Great Depression
John Green's Crash Course video on The Great Depression uses humor and enthusiasm to teach students about the economic complexities preceding the Depression and the failures of the Hoover administration to try and fix it. [14:27]
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: The Dust Bowl
Why did the Dust Bowl happen? How severe was the damage? This video discusses the causes and impact of the Great Depression. [4:04]
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: Daily Life in the 1930s
In this video, the day to day life of American families during the Great Depression is discussed. How did families cope? How did families live? [6:34]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art and Society | Modern Art & Ideas
Many artists create work in response to the social, cultural, and political issues of their time. See how Dorothea Lange, Martha Rosler, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres responded to the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, and the AIDS crisis.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art and Society: Modern Art & Ideas
Many artists create work in response to the social, cultural, and political issues of their time. See how Dorothea Lange, Martha Rosler, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres responded to the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, and the AIDS crisis....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How to Read a Document: Source Identification
What's the difference between a primary source and a secondary source? Khan Academy's historian Kim Kutz Elliott and grammarian David Rheinstrom discuss reading sources by examining Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How to Read a Document: Analyzing a Historical Text
How do historians analyze sources from the past? Khan Academy's historian Kim Kutz Elliott and grammarian David Rheinstrom continue their conversation about how to interpret Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address. [13:48]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Risks of Keynesian Thinking
This video [8:14] explains why Keynesian thinking might not be ideal sometimes.
A&E Television
History.com: America the Story of Us
America The Story of Us is an epic 12-hour television event that tells the extraordinary story of how America was invented. It is presented in a series of 12 documentaries from Rebels to Millennium.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Regionalism, Photography and the Great Depression: Lesson 1
This lesson will explore Regionalism, Photography, and the Great Depression. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Regionalism, Photography and the Great Depression."
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Of Mice and Men
This resource provides a short video about the American literary classic, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck. [3:24]
A&E Television
History.com: Dust Bowl
A video clip featuring the agricultural phenomenon that became known as the Dust Bowl. Shows the massive dust clouds that began in the Great Plains and reached clear across the United States to New York, causing millions of people to...