The Dust Bowl - Season 1 - Eps 1: The Great Plow Up
The grasslands of the southern Plains were rapidly turned into wheat fields. Then following the early years of the drought, storms killed crops and livestock and literally rearranged the landscape. The worst storm of them all was on April 14, 1935—Black Sunday—a searing experience for everyone caught in it, including a young songwriter from Pampa, Texas, named Woody Guthrie.
About The Dust Bowl
Title: The Dust Bowl
First Air Date: 2012-11-18
Last Air Date: 2012-11-19
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.9/10 (from 27 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 2
Network: PBS
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
Cast
Patricia Clarkson
Hazel Lucas Shaw
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote
Carolyn McCormick
Caroline Henderson
