The Dust Bowl
2012, Series, 46 min, Documentary, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 72
Chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
Directed by Ken Burns
Cast
- Dorothy Christenson Wiliamson as Self - Resident of Prowers County, CO
- Donald Worster as Self - Historian
- Timothy Egan as Self - Writer
- Pamela Riney-Kehrberg as Self - Historian
- Calvin Crabill as Self - Resident of Prowers County, CO
- Imogene Glover as Self - Resident of Texas County, OK
- Wayne Lewis as Self - Resident of Beaver County, OK
- Robert McCoy as Self - Resident of Texas County, OK
- Charles Shaw as Self - Resident of Cimarron County, OK
- R. Douglas Hurt as Self - Historian
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