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Making The Dust Bowl | Eyewitnesses

Making The Dust Bowl | Eyewitnesses

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Extended Look

Extended Look

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1:43
First Look | Just Like Midnight

First Look | Just Like Midnight

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0:20
First Look | Suffocating Blackness

First Look | Suffocating Blackness

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0:20
First Look | End of the World's Coming

First Look | End of the World's Coming

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0:20
Making The Dust Bowl | Uncovering the Dust Bowl

Making The Dust Bowl | Uncovering the Dust Bowl

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5:55
First Look | A Storm is Coming

First Look | A Storm is Coming

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0:20
The Great Plow-Up

The Great Plow-Up

Season 1 Episode 1
1:55:15
Reaping the Whirlwind

Reaping the Whirlwind

Season 1 Episode 2
1:55:45
Recollection

Recollection

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7:54
Mechanized Agriculture

Mechanized Agriculture

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4:39
The Wheat Bubble Burst

The Wheat Bubble Burst

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7:02
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The Dust Bowl

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Feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America’s history.
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Season 1 Episode 2
Reaping the Whirlwind
The storms and the Great Depression continued.
The Great Plow-Up
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Season 1 Episode 1
The Great Plow-Up
The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.
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