The Plow That Broke the Plains is a landmark 1936 documentary directed by Pare Lorentz. Commissioned by the U.S. Resettlement Administration, it illustrates how overgrazing, aggressive wheat farming, and unprecedented drought turned the ecologically fragile Great Plains into the Dust Bowl.
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