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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