Cover image for The dust bowl. [videorecording (DVD)]
TITLE:
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.
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