The dust bowl. [videorecording (DVD)]
The dust bowl. [videorecording (DVD)]
Alternate Title
:
Ken Burns presents The Dust Bowl
Publication Date
:
2012
Publication Information
:
[United States] : PBS,
Edition
:
Widescreen ed.
Physical Description
:
2 videodiscs (ca. 240 min.)
Subject Term
:
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Farmers -- Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains.
Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Geographic Term
:
Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
Additional Contributors
:
Coyote, Peter,
Burns, Ken, 1953-
Performer
:
Narrated by Peter Coyote.
Summary
:
Ken Burns documents one of the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Includes interviews, photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781608837182
General Note
:
DVD.
| Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
|---|
| Corner Brook (WCB) | Adult NFic DVD | Adult Non-Fiction DVD | 973.917 D94 | Checked In |
| Gambo (GDC) | Adult NFic DVD | Adult Non-Fiction DVD | 973.917 D94 | Checked In |
| Gander (GGR) | Adult NFic DVD | Adult Non-Fiction DVD | 973.917 D94 | Checked In |
| Labrador City (LLC) M. Butt | Adult NFic DVD | Adult Non-Fiction DVD | 973.917 D94 | Checked In |
| Mount Pearl (AMP) R. King | Adult NFic DVD | Adult Non-Fiction DVD | 973.917 D94 | Checked out |