Our Daily Bread

(1934)

73 minutes

Directed by King Vidor

Cast: Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Addison Richards, John Qualen, Bud Rae and Barbara Pepper

Film / Documentary / Great Depression

Lost souls, the victims of the Great Depression, seek a better future on a gritty, “back-to-the-land” commune. Idle masons, plumbers, and carpenters are put to work creating the new community, while retraining white-collar office workers and businessmen in the art of hard, blue-collar labors.