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| Ken Burns with World Premiere of "The Dust Bowl" By StudentFilmmakers.com posted Mar 30, 2012, 00:29 |
Special Guest at MountainFilm 2012
Ken Burns has built a singular career as a documentarian in this country with his epic, historical films about crucial periods in American history. His breakthrough subject was The Civil War, a series that garnered multiple awards and an enormous viewership and led to many other projects on America, such as radio, baseball, Mark Twain, Frank Lloyd Wright, jazz and World War II, the national parks and the dust bowl. His most recent work, "The Dust Bowl", examines the decade-long, man-made ecological disaster that began in 1930 and nearly ruined the breadbasket of the nation. The project, narrated by Peter Coyote, relies on Depression-era footage and first-person interviews with those who lived through the devastating crisis that destroyed millions of acres of once-fertile lands. Click here for more information.
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