The Plow That Broke the Plains

25m
Documentary
5.7

A documentary about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming destroyed the soil and led to the Dust Bowl.

Cast

Thomas Chalmers
Narrator (voice)
Bam White
Farmer

Crew

Pare Lorentz
Director, Writer
Leo Zochling
Editor
Paul Ivano
Director of Photography
Paul Strand
Director of Photography
Ralph Steiner
Director of Photography
Leo Hurwitz
Director of Photography
Joseph I. Kane
Sound
Virgil Thomson
Original Music Composer
King Vidor
Technical Advisor
John Franklin Carter Jr.
Researcher
Alexander Smallens
Conductor
Henry Brant
Orchestrator

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