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The Dust Bowl

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82 Metascore
2012-2012
1 Season
PBS International
Documentary
TV-PG

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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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Ken Burns

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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Ken Burns Explores the Great Depression in The Dust Bowl

The iconic photos from the southern plains states during the Great Depression say it all: the haunted eyes of weary mothers, children with their faces wrapped against the choking dust and families piling their belongings into trucks and heading to California.In the two-part documentary The Dust Bowl, filmmaker Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball, Prohibition) focuses on the nearly decade-long drought that, coupled with unsustainable farming techniques, destroyed millions of acres in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico.

Fri, Nov 16, 2012

Ken Burns Explores the Great Depression in The Dust Bowl

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