Family-Themed Films Over 40 Years Old-Good Then,Good Now

Grand Teton quarryman and family patriarch carefully navigates issues of religion and education in order to eke out a brighter future for his family.

With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.

A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.

Each member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair.

A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unforeseen sadness and unexpected joy.

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

John Davis, a married American newspaper reporter in London, covers the story of a home for children displaced by the war and meets two kids who grow attached to him.

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

A Virginia farmer who has vowed to remain neutral during the Civil War is spurred into action when his youngest son is taken by Union soldiers.

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.

A chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.

After the young wife of vaudevillian Eddie Foy passes away, he incorporates their seven children into the act and takes it on the road.

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.