S01E01 The Great Plow Up
The grasslands of the southern Plains were rapidly turned into wheat fields. Then following the early years of the drought, storms killed crops and livestock and literally rearranged the landscape. The worst storm of them...
The Dust Bowl
Overview
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.
Episodes
S01E02 Reaping the Whirlwind
Black Sunday was only halfway through the decade-long crisis. The storms continued. The Great Depression still affected people. Government programs were instituted to help. Learn what FDR’s administration did to try to keep the southern...
Cast
Patricia Clarkson
Hazel Lucas Shaw
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote
Carolyn McCormick
Caroline Henderson
