American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
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Brand: WGBH BOSTON VIDEODVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 55 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Movie Reviews of American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
Movie Review: Almost essential for learning about the Dust Bowl and the Depression
Summary: 5 Stars
A well produced television special on the Dust Bowl. Though somewhat incomplete in its depiction of the Dust Bowl, Surviving the Dust Bowl gives a very good over view of that drastic event in U.S. history. It works very well as a tool to give modern students a perspective on 1930s American history and its implications to present day. While it does seem to lack in-depth analysis, I don't think that should dissuade people, as there is only so much a producer can do in a 50 minute television program. The really good thing about it is the inclusion of people who were there and witnessed it. It goes well with The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan.
Summary of American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains--the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma western Kansas and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico. Topsoil that had taken a thousand years per inch to build suddenly blew away in only minutes. One journalist traveling through the devastated region dubbed it the "Dust Bowl."This American Experience film presents the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life enduring drought dust disease--even death--for nearly a decade. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" the Dust Bowlers who stayed overcame an almost unbelievable series of calamities and disasters.System Requirements:Running Time: 56 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Age: 7+ UPC: 783421418196 Manufacturer No: WG41819Documentary DVD Video
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