The Plow That Broke the Plains

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.

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Thomas Chalmers

Narrator (voice)

Bam White

Farmer

Pare Lorentz

Director

Pare Lorentz

Writer

Virgil Thomson

Original Music Composer

Joseph I. Kane

Sound

Henry Brant

Orchestrator

King Vidor

Technical Advisor

Alexander Smallens

Conductor

John Franklin Carter Jr.

Researcher

Leo Zochling

Editor

Paul Ivano

Director of Photography

Ralph Steiner

Director of Photography

Paul Strand

Director of Photography

Leo Hurwitz

Director of Photography