Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Videos, Slides, Films
Surviving the Dust Bowl
- Available as
- Physical
- Summary
-
The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- written and produced by Chana Gazit ; co-produced by David Steward ; a Steward/Gazit Productions, Inc. film for American Experience
- Included Title
-
- American experience (Television program)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- [Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, 2007
- Physical Details
-
- 1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- ISBNs
- 9781593757366, 1593757360
- OCLC
- ocm83278710
- Credits
-
- Host, David McCullough, narrator, Liev Schreiber
- Editor, David Steward ; music, Michael Bacon ; cinematography, Allan Palmer
- Originally broadcast in 1998 as an episode of TV program American experience.
- Special features: teaching materials (PDF).
- DVD, Dolby digital.
- Closed-captioned.
Subjects
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
- Environmental disasters -- Southwestern States.
- United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
- United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.