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Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl

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Season 1
THE DUST BOWL chronicles 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.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Episode 1: The Great Plow Up
    November 17, 2012
    1 h 51 min
    TV-PG
    In the early 20th century, homesteaders converge on the southern Plains, where wet years, rising wheat prices and World War I produce a classic boom. Then, in 1931, a decade-long drought begins, exacerbated by the Great Depression.
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  2. S1 E2 - Episode 2: Reaping the Whirlwind
    November 18, 2012
    1 h 52 min
    TV-PG
    The crucible of dust, drought and Depression intensifies. Many people on the southern Plains give up and join a “migration of the defeated” to California. There they are branded as “Okies” and face vicious discrimination.
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Uncovering The Dust Bowl
Uncovering The Dust Bowl
6minTV-PG
Additional material and background from "Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl."
Additional material and background from "Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl."
Additional material and background from "Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl."

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Directors
Ken Burns
Producers
Ken BurnsDayton DuncanJulie Dunfey
Cast
Peter Coyote
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