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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 3 sec.) ; 304100471 bytes |
| Summary |
The Dust Bowl is a four-part series by Ken Burns that 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.The Dust Bowl is also a story of heroic perseverance against enormous odds: families finding ways to survive and hold on to their land, New Deal programs that kept hungry families afloat, and a partnership between government agencies and farmers to develop new farming and conservation methods.The series details this critical moment in American history in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is part oral history, using compelling interviews of 26 survivors of those hard times - in what will probably be the last recorded testimony of the generation that lived through the Dust Bowl.Filled with seldom seen film footage, previously unpublished photographs, the songs of Woody Guthrie, and the observations of two remarkable women who left behind eloquent written accounts, the film is also a historical accounting of what happened and why during the 1930s on the southern plains. (From the US) (Documentary Series) (Part 1 of 4) *New Series* PG CCFollow the conversation on Twitter #SBSdoco |
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Broadcast 2013-03-01 at 20:35:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Depressions.
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Droughts -- Environmental aspects.
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Dust Bowl Era (1931-1939)
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Dust storms.
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Environmental disasters.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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Burns, Ken, director
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Coyote, Peter, cast
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