The Plow That Broke the Plains
56 %|May 10, 1936|Documentary
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.
Featured Crew
Pare Lorentz
Director
Virgil Thomson
Original Music Composer
Henry Brant
Orchestrator
Pare Lorentz
Writer
Joseph I. Kane
Sound
King Vidor
Technical Advisor
John Franklin Carter Jr.
Researcher
Leo Zochling
Editor
Cast
Thomas Chalmers
Narrator (voice)
Bam White
Farmer