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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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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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.
30 April 1936
The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie.
10 July 1936
A crude countryman sells horses and ,thanks to an old war buddy who has now become a film star, has achieved some renown.
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.
01 January 1936
Two Texas Rangers (Tom Tyler, Rex Lease) nab smugglers and rescue a woman (Margaret Nearing) from a runaway wagon.
01 November 1936
Film portrays the expedition of the British explorer David Livingstone to Africa to discover the source of the Nile, his disappearance, and the expedition to find him led by Stanley.
07 February 1936
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit enters a dogsled race with a $10,000 first prize.
28 November 1936
A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield.
25 December 1936
Meany, Miny and Moe, the three monkeys, start out to sing Christmas carols, but wind up doing a good deed for Widow Duck and her family.
06 October 1936
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman.
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When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle range.
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Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine.
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