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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28 February 1936
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
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.
07 February 1936
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit enters a dogsled race with a $10,000 first prize.
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.
26 November 1936
A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
01 April 1936
A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been stolen by a gang of thieves specialising in taking art treasures.
20 September 1936
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
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.
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.
30 November 1936
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate.
16 August 1936
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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