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00:00 The new Ken Burns documentary is a morality tale about our
relationship to the land that sustains us, a lesson we ignore at
our peril When you hear "dust bowl," iconic images likely pop
into your head: black clouds over the prairie, dead cattle
scattered across the range, and tractors buried in the field.
Those images are easy to remember, but the circumstances are
easily forgotten. Ken Burns' new documentary, The Dust Bowl, set
to air on PBS on Nov. 18, examines the worst man-made ecological
disaster in American history, documenting its causes, impact,
and lessons, as well as the personal stories of survival and
human endurance. The documentary chronicles the frenzied wheat
boom of the "Great Plow-Up," followed by a decade-long drought
during the 1930s, which nearly swept away the breadbasket of the
nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs and seldom seen
movie footage, bring to life stories of incredible human
suffering and equally in