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The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history
The Dust Bowl 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..
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The Dust Bowl 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..
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Behind the Scenes | Uncovering the Dust Bowl
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Preview: S1 | 5m 55s | Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan discuss making The Dust Bowl (5m 55s)
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Preview: S1 | 30s | Feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America’s history. (30s)
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Preview: S1 | 1m 43s | The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history (1m 43s)
Behind the Scenes | Making The Dust Bowl
Preview: S1 | 6m 45s | Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan, Julie Dunfey and Susan Shumaker talk about making The Dust Bowl. (6m 45s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 2m 19s | No matter their state of origin, during the 1930s all newcomers were dubbed Okies in CA (2m 19s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 3m 34s | Woody Guthrie moves to Los Angeles in the second half of the 1930s. (3m 34s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 7m 2s | The stock market crashed on what came to be called Black Tuesday. (7m 2s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 1m 52s | Multiple suicides took place during the Dust Bowl in the southern Great Plains. (1m 52s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 6m 43s | Social worker Dorothy Williamson describes her experiences in the Dust Bowl (6m 43s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 4m 43s | In the summer of 1936, Roosevelt takes a whistle-stop tour across the Midwest. (4m 43s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 4m 20s | In 1935, 850 million acres of topsoil are swept off the Great Plains. (4m 20s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 7m 54s | Meet some of the people who lived in the Great Plains. (7m 54s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 39s | Dorthy Williamson discusses working in the southern Great Plains during the dust bowl. (1m 39s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 6m 20s | Woody Guthrie sings “I Ain’t Got No Home” and talks about migrant families traveling. (6m 20s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 3m 39s | Help came to the Great Plains by way of New Deal programs. (3m 39s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 4m 9s | Modern machinery made farming more profitable. (4m 9s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 1m 56s | Even thought wheat prices had plummeted, farmers went back to work in the fall. (1m 56s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 3m 26s | What have we learned from the Dust Bowl? (3m 26s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 4m 54s | What lessons can we take from what happened during the Dust Bowl? (4m 54s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 50s | Hugh Bennett went on a fact finding trip through the Great Plains in search of a solution. (1m 50s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 30s | Some people packed up their families and headed west. (1m 30s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 5m 16s | By 1937, the Dust Bowl farmers are asking for government help. (5m 16s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 1m 37s | The rains followed FDR on his second trip to the Dust Bowl. (1m 37s)
Episode 2 Introduction | Woody Guthrie's 'The Great Dust Storm'
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Clip: Ep2 | 2m 17s | In the introduction to episode two Woody Guthrie sings "The Great Dust Storm" (2m 17s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 5m 9s | The Dust Bowl was a decade-long natural catastrophe of biblical proportions. (5m 9s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 12m 11s | As the Great Depression sets in, farmers on the Great Plains begin to feel its effects. (12m 11s)
The Depression Comes to the Southern Plains
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Clip: Ep1 | 5m 45s | Wheat prices continue to fall and a drought begins the farmers look to FDR for relief. (5m 45s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 33s | People who moved to CA were known as Okies. (1m 33s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 2m 35s | Learn about Caroline Henderson. (2m 35s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 3m 24s | The Great Plains goes through a boom period. (3m 24s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 3m 27s | Sunday April 14, 1935 became known as Black Sunday. (3m 27s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 2m 42s | Hear from Donald Worster about the increasing number of dust storms the area faced. (2m 42s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 4m 39s | Modern machinery made wheat farming more efficient and profitable. (4m 39s)
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