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Plow that broke the plains

United States, 1936
film

Depicts the ecological and human disaster that occured in America’s southwestern Great Plains region during the 1930s. The ‘Dust Bowl’ resul..

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New deal documentaries: the plow that broke the plains. The River. The Power and the land. The New frontier

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The Dust bowl

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The Land

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Strand: under the dark cloth

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No other wealth

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Rendezvous with destiny

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Heritage

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Muddy waters

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The Great Plains

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Drylanders

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Dorothea Lange. Pt. 2: the closer for me

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Wheat country

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The Changing wheat belt

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Harvests for tomorrow

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