A documentary about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming destroyed the soil and led to the Dust Bowl.
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from The Plow That Broke the Plains:
ARC Identifier 13595 / Local Identifier The film presents the social and economic history of the Great Plains -- from the time of the settlement of the prairies ...
With powerful imagery a moving score and poetic narration this pioneering New Deal commissioned documentary made by Pare Lorentz explores the natural ...
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) is a short documentary film which shows what happened to the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada ...
ARC Identifier 13595 / Local Identifier - Department of Agriculture. Farm Security Administration. Information Division. (ca. 1937 - ca. 1942) - 1937 - The film ...
Documenting the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. The full clip can be found online in the Prelinger Archives or you can check out the DVD from PPLD.
'The Plow That Broke the Plains' was a 25-minute documentary film produced in 1936 that detailed the terrible over-farming of the Great Plains region of the ...
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04 April 1936
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20 September 1936
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
01 January 1936
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italian: Le avventure di Pinocchio) was an Italian animated film directed by Raoul Verdini and Umberto Spano.
27 March 1936
The spahi Jean Peyral is very in love with the flirtatious Cora. When he realizes that she betrays him, he tries to kill himself.
16 August 1936
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
20 January 1936
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P.
06 March 1936
Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.
22 February 1936
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.
29 February 1936
In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.
21 May 1936
Two twin brothers working in a Vienna fair and who are both gifted for singing meet different luck both in love and their careers.
09 March 1936
Oswald the Rabbit and his little brother catch the Slumberland Express and it carries the assorted animals to childhood's dream of paradise - an amusement park where all the games are free, and windows are provided just to be broken by an abundant supply of free rocks, and old men wear silk hats to provide targets for snowballs.
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