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Dust Bowl

Reaping the Whirlwind (#102)

Efforts to stabilize the soil continue as the families of the plains seek new lives in California. [116 minutes] TV-PG Closed Captioning Descriptive Video Service

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Series Description: In this series, Ken Burns and producer Dayton Duncan chronicle the Dust Bowl in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is both an oral history, using interviews of 30 survivors, and an historical accounting of what happened and why during the 1930s on the southern Plains, using first person accounts, narration, comments by historians, and restored photographs, footage and music from the period.

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  • Reaping the Whirlwind (#102)

    Efforts to stabilize the soil continue as the families of the plains seek new lives in California. [116 minutes]

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