As Depression-era sports stories go, Seabiscuit is looking better all the time. Though terminally obvious, it was at least willing to take a stand on behalf of New Deal policies. Ron Howard’s ...

"Cinderella Man," the underdog drama starring Russell Crowe as a Depression-era boxer, punched through with the top honor of the Phoenix Film Critics Society's sixth annual awards, earning recognition ...

During the Great Depression, ex-boxer James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) works as a day laborer until his former manager Joe Gould (Paul Giamatti) offers him a one-time slot against a rising young ...