This page was created for The New Deal Film Festival:

Al Stein leads a discussion about film as art, propaganda and documentary expression in 1930s America, focusing on Pare Lorentz, FDR’s cameraman and his colleagues Ralph Steiner, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, and Willard Van Dyke. Featuring Studs Terkel narrating The Memorial Day Massacre, Woody Guthrie songs and Will Geer (The Waltons) in The Fight For Life (1940)

This event was on July 20, 2024

The following are some links to various historical films

The Films of Pare Lorentz

• The Plow That Broke The Plains

• The River

• The Fight for Life

• Pare Lorentz: FDR's Filmmaker

1937 Memorial Day Massacre:

• Chicago Cops Killed 10 During 1937 Steel Strike, Then the Media Covered It Up

• Labor Activist Boris Ross on the Memorial Day Massacre

• PBS film Workers Die, Film Buried

• Mollie West describes the Memorial Day Massacre

Other Films:

• Restoring Economic Growth 1934 Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins

• Woody Guthrie songs in "The Columbia"

• We Work Again 1937

• Work Pays America

• The Scary Parallels Between The Great Depression And Today

• Rise and Fall of the National Industrial Recovery Act

• US Propaganda: National Recovery Administration: 'The Road is Open Again' - (1933)

• Hands

• Valley Town by Willard Van Dyke

• 1937 - Black Legion Trailer

• The World Today: The Black Legion - Shadow of Fascism Over America (Ralph Steiner,1937)

• The Worst Movie President Ever

• What Was The Great Depression Really Like?