Dust Bowl
Reaping the Whirlwind (#102)
Efforts to stabilize the soil continue as the families of the plains seek new lives in California. [116 minutes]
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Live YouTube Event: Lessons from the Dust...
Full Program: Live YouTube Event -- Lessons from the Dust Bowl Join filmmaker Ken Burns in a National Conversation live on YouTube.... 02:15:00
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The Dust Bowl Episode | Eyewitnesses | PBS
Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan, Julie Dunfey and Susan Shumaker talk about making The Dust Bowl, and how they discovered the... 06:46
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The Dust Bowl Episode | Uncovering the Dust...
Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan discuss making The Dust Bowl and the myriad hardships facing those in the Panhandle... 05:56
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Join Ken Burns for a live YouTube Discussion...
Join Ken Burns for a live YouTube discussion about his new film The Dust Bowl, recent weather events and current... 00:57
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The Dust Bowl | You Gave Us Beer, Now Give Us...
An excerpt from The Dust Bowl, premiering on PBS Nov. 18, 2012. FDR was greeted with signs along the road saying... 01:08
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Series Description: In this series, Ken Burns and producer Dayton Duncan chronicle the Dust Bowl in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is both an oral history, using interviews of 30 survivors, and an historical accounting of what happened and why during the 1930s on the southern Plains, using first person accounts, narration, comments by historians, and restored photographs, footage and music from the period.
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Past Episodes
These episodes of Dust Bowl aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.