The Dust Bowl

Chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.

• Ken BurnsDirector
• Dayton DuncanWriter

• Patricia ClarksonHazel Lucas Shaw
• Peter CoyotePeter Coyote
• Carolyn McCormickCaroline Henderson