The Dust Bowl
2012•1 Seasons•2 Episodes•7.9•Ended
Documentary
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.
Network
PBS
Origin
US
Cast
Patricia Clarkson
Hazel Lucas Shaw
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote
Carolyn McCormick
Caroline Henderson
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