The Greatest Movie of Every Year of the 1930s

Cinema as it is known today had its origins within the films that were made in the 1930s. Although the prior decade had seemed tremendous leaps forwards in the types of formal choices that filmmakers were willing to make, the 1930s saw a rise in audience engagement, resulting in one of the greatest periods of sustained success in the history of the box office. In an era before television was even a prestige format, audiences that sought escapism found going to the movies to be a source of catharsis.