Surviving the Dust Bowl

Surviving the Dust Bowl (1998)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1998-03-02
  • Runtime: 0h 55min
  • Language: English
  • Director: Chana Gazit

Summary

In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains — the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico. Topsoil that had taken a thousand years per inch to build suddenly blew away in only minutes. One journalist traveling through the devastated region dubbed it the "Dust Bowl." This American Experience film presents the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease — even death — for nearly a decade. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California, typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," the Dust Bowlers who stayed overcame an almost unbelievable series of calamities and disasters.

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  • Liev Schreiber

    as Narrator (voice)
  • Matthew Modine

    as Lawrence Svobida (voice)
Production Molly Jacobs Associate Producer
Production David Steward Co-Producer
Sound Michael Bacon Original Music Composer
Production Sharon Grimberg Producer
Production Maria Nicolo Associate Producer
Crew Vanessa Ezersky Post-Production Manager
Production Mark Samels Executive Producer
Directing Chana Gazit Director
Production Susan Bellows Producer
Production Susan Mottau Coordinating Producer
Crew Glenn Fukushima Post-Production Manager
Writing Chana Gazit Writer
Production Chana Gazit Producer
Production Laura Ozment-Schenck Associate Producer
Crew Allan Palmer Cinematography
Editing David Steward Editor
Art Alison Kennedy Art Designer
Sound John Jenkins Sound Mixer
Sound Michael Haines Sound Recordist
Crew Russell Steward Motion Capture Artist
Crew Greg Shea Post-Production Manager
Sound Rick Dior Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Sound Michael Allen Sound
Production Nancy Sherman Production Manager
Sound David Girard Sound
Sound Roger Phenix Sound

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