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First Look | Suffocating Blackness

First Look | Suffocating Blackness

Survey the causes of the worst man-made ecological disaster in U.S. history: the catastrophic dust storms of the 1930s.
Preview Length 00:20 Premiere: 11/18/12

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The Dust Bowl

About The Dust Bowl

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.

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S1 E2 Length 1:55:45 Premiere Date 11/19/12

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