They recall the days turning black, the winds whipping through towns, taking with them the family's livelihoods, the soil on which they farmed. In those natural disasters, thousands died, but no one is sure just how many.
Survivors of the dust storms of the 1930s tell their stories in Ken Burns' oral history documentary "The Dust Bowl" Sunday and Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, on PBS (check local listings).
"They used to say no one will watch; no one has the attention span," Burns says of films tackling history's tough subjects.
But he has proved naysayers wrong before. Viewers watched his very long films about the Civil War, jazz and baseball. Four hours, spread over two nights, is practically a short when it comes to Burns' signature films.
And there is a lot here, much of it terrifying, to sustain the four hours.
"It was a man-made catastrophe," Burns says. "It...
Survivors of the dust storms of the 1930s tell their stories in Ken Burns' oral history documentary "The Dust Bowl" Sunday and Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, on PBS (check local listings).
"They used to say no one will watch; no one has the attention span," Burns says of films tackling history's tough subjects.
But he has proved naysayers wrong before. Viewers watched his very long films about the Civil War, jazz and baseball. Four hours, spread over two nights, is practically a short when it comes to Burns' signature films.
And there is a lot here, much of it terrifying, to sustain the four hours.
"It was a man-made catastrophe," Burns says. "It...
- 11/16/2012
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