Historic Dust Bowl Films Series 3DVDs

 

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The Plow That Broke The Plains

Length: 25 Minutes | Produced:1936

This film is part of the 1999 National Film Registry of artistically, culturally, and socially significant films. It takes a realistic look at how farming in the Midwest turned the land into an uninhabitable cloud of dust, later coined The Dust Bowl.

Farmers War Against Dust & Fight To Save Wheat Crops

Length: 10 Minutes | Produced:1937

Newsreel footage of the farmers struggle against dust in the Midwest. This was sponsored by an engine company who claims that their new engine and well drilling system will save the farmers of the Midwest.

The Land

Length: 42 Minutes | Produced:1930s

This is the story of how rural America used machines to achieve an unbelievable production - but at a terrible cost to land and to people through the waste of erosion and poverty. This is the story of the beginnings of reconstruction, and the hope of a world of freedom and abundance through the workings of a democracy and through mans mastery of his own machines. This heart-wrenching documentary tells of the destruction, erosion, and loss of arable soil that led to the ensuing poverty and the dust bowl migration of the 1930s. The film begins with the following exert, the strength that is America comes from the land. Our mighty war effort is the product of land and people. Land: our soil, our minerals, our forests, our water power. People: their skills their inventiveness their resourcefulness, their education, their health. Land and people, in war or in peace, this our national wealth. The Land, focuses on the dire conditions that many of the farming families endured, with scenes of poverty that can only be described as appalling and desperate, included unconscionable footage of completely helpless children living in the worst of conditions and suffering from a variety of diseases as a result of malnutrition. Note: This film suffers mildly from flicker.

Work Pays America

Length: Minutes | Produced:1937

This short newsreel shows the worsening Dust Bowl conditions in Texas as the black lizard is turning our great plains region into a desert. The reel explains the causes of the dust bowl, focusing on the loss of topsoil, and provides suggestions to prevent further damage to this vital farming region.

Save Our Soil

Length: Minutes | Produced:1939

This film documents a variety of public works programs by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The film discusses some of the programs set up to help victims of the Dust Bowl. This film shows dust storms and the resulting ruin and famine of the dust bowl. Food, housing, and medical assistance from WPA workers are provided. The film also documents doctors checking childrens health and specifically their eyes, the work programs set up for displaced families, and dam construction to prevent erosion. This film suffers from flicker.