The Dust Bowl

Name: The Dust Bowl
Released: 2012
Rating: 70.37
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Peter Coyote, Carolyn McCormick, Woody Guthrie

2012

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TV Mini-Series

Tells the story of the great drought that befell the Southern plains of the USA in the 1930s and the poor farming practices that made it into something far worse.

The Dust Bowl

2012

Documentary

TV Mini-Series

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thehynes

Rated 01 Jan 2013

Interesting and very educational walkthrough of the disaster that was the 1930's Dust Bowl. I did find it a little dry though (harrr harrr,geddit?)

Rated 01 Jan 2013

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JPFerguson

Rated 21 Nov 2022

Ken Burns demonstrates with this film, using agriculture on America's Great Southerns Plains as an example, the power of industrialisation to transform hope (a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen) into deadly insanity (doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results). All set to the tragic yet uplifting tunes of Woody Guthrie. Why have I never heard of Howard Finnell? Watching a Ken Burns film is always an educative experience.

Rated 21 Nov 2022

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