Surviving the Dust Bowl

Surviving the Dust Bowl was released on 2 mars 1998.

Surviving the Dust Bowl was directed by Chana Gazit.

Surviving the Dust Bowl has a runtime of 55min.

Surviving the Dust Bowl was produced by Sharon Grimberg, Susan Bellows, Chana Gazit.

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.

The key characters in Surviving the Dust Bowl are Narrator (voice) (Liev Schreiber), Lawrence Svobida (voice) (Matthew Modine).

Surviving the Dust Bowl is rated G.

Surviving the Dust Bowl is a Documentaire film.