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The Great Plow-Up
The grasslands of the southern Plains were rapidly turned into wheat fields. Then following the early years of the drought, storms killed crops and livestock and literally rearranged the landscape. The worst storm of them all was on April 14, 1935—Black Sunday—a searing experience for everyone caught in it, including a young songwriter from Pampa, Texas, named Woody Guthrie.
Full Length
115m 15s
Full Length
The Great Plow-Up
115m 15s
The grasslands of the southern Plains were rapidly turned into wheat fields. Then following the early years of the drought
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Reaping the Whirlwind
115m 45s
Black Sunday was only halfway through the decade-long crisis. The storms continued. The Great Depression still affected pe
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Official Trailer
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Feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America’s history.
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Making The Dust Bowl | Eyewitnesses
6m 45s
Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan, Julie Dunfey and Susan Shumaker talk about making The Dust Bowl, and how they discovered the inc
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First Look | A Storm is Coming
20s
The Dust Bowl was the worst man made ecological disaster in American History.
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The Dust Bowl Intro
The Dust Bowl was a decade-long natural catastrophe of biblical proportions and the worst man-made ecological disaster in
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Making The Dust Bowl | Uncovering the Dust Bowl
5m 55s
Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan discuss making The Dust Bowl and the myriad hardships facing those in the Panhandle during the
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Extended Look
1m 43s
The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of t
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About the Film
The Dust Bowl chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history.
Using seldom seen movie footage, previously unpublished photographs and the compelling interviews of 26 survivors of those hard times, The Dust Bowl is a story of heroic perseverance against enormous odds.
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