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Released
1936 · FILM

The Plow That Broke the Plains

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Runtime
25 min
Documentary

Synopsis

A documentary examining the events that occurred in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming practices led to soil degradation and the subsequent Dust Bowl.

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Principal cast & crew: 9

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Leo ZochlingShot by Leo HurwitzScored by Virgil Thomson

Also known as

  • Der Pflugde
  • The Plow That Borke the Plainsfr

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