Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

This documentary film seeks to provide the viewer with an impressive collection of images that characterize the timeframe in the United States known as The Great Depression. Included in this compilation are film clips showing the long breadlines very common during those years, clips of several of the movies that tried to help the American people forget their troubles, such as King Kong, and newsreel footage of the violence that occurred when workers decided to riot at the Ford plant.