Surviving the Dust Bowl

Year: 1998

Runtime: 55 mins

Language: English

Director: Chana Gazit

Documentary

In 1931 the rains stopped and massive “black blizzards” tore across the Southern Plains—Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, western Kansas, eastern Colorado and New Mexico—stripping centuries of topsoil in minutes. A journalist called it the “Dust Bowl.” This American Experience film follows families who stayed, facing dust, disease and loss, went west.

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