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The Dust Bowl

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The Dust Bowl 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.

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Dorothy Christenson Wiliamson
Self - Resident of Prowers County, CO
Donald Worster
Self - Historian
Timothy Egan
Self - Writer

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Episode 1

The Great Plow Up

Sun, Nov 18, 2012112 mins

In the first episode of Ken Burns's THE DUST BOWL, feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America's history as survivors recall the terror of the dust storms, the desperation of hungry families and how they managed to find hope even as the earth and heavens seemed to turn against them.

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Awards

  • 2013 - PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television - nominated
  • 2013 - Eddie - Best Edited Documentary - Television - nominated
  • 2013 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) - nominated
  • 2014 - WGA Award (TV) - Documentary - Other Than Current Events - nominated

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