Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (film)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora, consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clips to portray the era of the Great Depression.

Summary
The film serves as a nostalgic and evocative scrapbook of the Depression from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Cast

 * The Andrews Sisters
 * Fred Astaire
 * Warner Baxter
 * Jack Benny
 * Busby Berkeley
 * Willie Best
 * Humphrey Bogart
 * George Burns
 * James Cagney
 * Cab Calloway
 * Eddie Cantor
 * Hobart Cavanaugh
 * George Chandler
 * Charlie Chaplin
 * Winston Churchill
 * Betty Compson
 * Gary Cooper
 * Bing Crosby
 * Frankie Darro
 * Cecil B. DeMille
 * Marlene Dietrich
 * John Dillinger
 * Walt Disney
 * James Dunn
 * Cliff Edwards
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * Bill Elliot
 * Madge Evans
 * Stepin Fetchit
 * W. C. Fields
 * Dick Foran
 * Gerald Ford
 * Clark Gable
 * Benny Goodman
 * Cary Grant
 * Woody Guthrie
 * Gabby Hayes
 * Billie Holiday
 * Herbert Hoover
 * J. Edgar Hoover
 * Paul Robeson
 * Shirley Temple

Selected films featured

 * King Kong
 * I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
 * Citizen Kane
 * Wild Boys of the Road
 * The Roaring Twenties
 * American Madness
 * Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
 * Gold Diggers of 1933
 * Lady Killer
 * G Men

Accolades
1976: Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film

Availability
A DVD from Image Entertainment was released in 1999 and again in 2018 by Artiflix.

It is available on DVD and Blu-Ray via The Sprocket Vault.