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This Prelinger Archives film is a classic drama that details the Great Plains during the Depression--a history of the land and the people who worked it, as well as a window into the optimism and opportunism that initially led settlers to make the Great Plains their home. Gripping footage of a dust storm and its aftermath. The film ends with defeated Dust Bowl farmers heading west--for California. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically,...
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Ken Burns documents the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
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"1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pestilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the heartland of an empire called America, where a traveling carnival harboring Ben Hawkins, a troubled healer, will clash with an evangelical ministry led by Borther Justin Crowe."--Container....