Surviving the Dust Bowl
2007
DVD
The drought of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. The "film presents the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease - even death - for nearly a decade".
Item Details
ISBN: 9781593757366
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: E.
Other Title: American experience (Television program)
Notes:
- Originally broadcast in 1998 as an episode of TV program American experience.
- Co-produced and edited by David Steward ; music by Michael Bacon.
- Narrated by Liev Schreiber.
- DVD ; full screen presentation.
- For private home use only.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Publisher or Distributor Number: WG41819
Control Number: 524295
UPC: 783421418196
Publisher: [Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2007]Subjects:
- Documentary television programs -- United States.
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
- Environmental disasters -- Southwestern States.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
- United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
- United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
Genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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