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Sixty-Four Flood | What Nature Gave Us
Season 2016
Episode 11
On June 7-8, 1964, a driving rain buckled dams and flooded vehicles on the Blackfeet Reservation, sweeping crying children from mothers’ arms, and ferrying homes and bodies across the prairie. Our mobile, documentary narrative tells the story of the worst natural disaster in Montana history: the 1964 flood on the Blackfeet Reservation.
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6:24
Carol Lynn and her uncle, Gerald Cooper, always had a special bond.
7:22
Webb Pepion lost his house and cattle in the flood & helped his family rebuild everything.
7:04
Floyd Rider talks about life in a "flood home." He died shortly after filming last year.
8:43
Despite her family’s protests Sugar returns to prison to visit the lover she left behind.
7:43
Determined and anxious to get her daughter back, Sugar takes matters into her own hands.
10:41
After 10 years behind bars Sugar is released from prison, and attempts to reconnect.