PBS - 'Dust Bowl'
An amazing video, documentary chronicle of the 30's collapse of the American prairie. ~ pinto
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/
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It was very well done, got a real feeling what it was like to live in that area at that time, and that was heartbreaking... Children and neighbors died, but they stayed, continued to hope things would be better "next year." 
but the background and day-to-day realities they all faced was an eye opener. As was the push to plow, plow, plow the grasslands in the late 20's, early 30's.
My family stayed on the East Coast. I was also amazed that he had so many great witnesses. They must have been awfully young in the '30s to be still around. How they stayed through years of those killing waves of dirt is a mystery to me, scared me witless just watching. Excellent photography, especially for the times, IMO. 
Mainly grandparents of friends. Or their parents' recollections. They don't speak much about it. But I know, second hand, they scraped to get by. Picked crops when they could, got day labor.
I think what touched me most was the parallel with my family's history. The collapse of the potato crop in Ireland. The emigration.
History isn't always about who won or lost the war. Or, sometimes, the war at all. It's about people.
pbs ROCKED THIS ONE
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