The Dust Bowl
(DVD) 

Originally broadcast in 2012 on PBS.

Special features: behind the scenes ; deleted scenes ; additional interviews.

Editors, Craig Mellish and Ryan Gifford ; cinematography, Buddy Squires and Stephen McCarthy ; associate producers, Aileen Silverstone and Susan Shumaker ; assistant editors, Richard Rubin and Meagan Frappiea ; technical director, Dave Mast ; apprentice editor, Katy Haas.

Narrated by Peter Coyote ; voice overs, Carolyn McCormick, Patricia Clarkson, Amy Madigan, Kevin Conway.

Ken Burns documents the worst human-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. Menacing black blizzads killed farmers' crops and livestock, threatened the lives of their children, and forced thousands of desperate families to pick up and move somewhere else. Vivid interviews with more than two dozen survivors of those hard times, combined with dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage, bring to life stories of incredible human suffering and equally incredible human perseverance. The Dust Bowl ... is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us- a lesson we ignore at our peril."--,Back cover of discs container.

"The Dust Bowl chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history. Using seldom seen movie footage, previously unpublished photographs and the compelling interviews of 26 survivors of those hard times, The Dust Bowl is a story of heroic perseverance against enormous odds."--,PBS website https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-dust-bowl/ (viewed August 10, 2023).

MPAA rating: Not rated ; TV-PG.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen.

Home use only.

English (5.1 surround) or Spanish (audio 2.0) soundtracks with optional English and Spanish SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired); optional video description in English.