Dramatic Trailer for PBS Dust Bowl Documentary

Posted on May 16, 2012

Here a preview for The Dust Bowl, a documentary film by Ken Burns. The film covers the long, harsh period of drought and dust storms in the U.S. in the 1930s. The Dust Bowl period followed right after a period of near-perfect conditions, with profitable farming. Many people living and farming in the Plains states had to abandon farming during this time period.

PBS quotes Dorothy Williamson, who lived through the Dust Bowl, as saying, "It was almost surreal, the dust. Looking back on it I think it carried with it a, a feeling of I don't know the word exactly, of well, being unreal - but almost being evil."

The series will premiere on November 18 and 19, 2012. PBS has a website for the documentary here. Take a look:

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