News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 6 months ago
One would say it was almost inevitable that two things so huge were bound to meet. The four-hour film premieres Sunday and Monday on PBS and tells the story of the great drought that befell the Southern plains in the 1930s and the poor farming
News Source: The New York Times
| 6 months ago
Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress via Florentine Films Arthur Rothstein's 1936 photo of a farmer and his sons in Oklahoma, in The Dust Bowl...An artificial phenomenon in this case the rapid uprooting of millions of acres of prairie grass for the
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 6 months ago
In a sense, Ken Burns ' new documentary is the photographic negative of the one he delivered in 2009: Instead of swooning full-color shots of azure lakes and soaring mountains, his new film is made of images that could come from the dark side of the
News Source: Denver Post
| 6 months ago
Font Resize The reverence shown to filmmaker Ken Burns has reached epic proportions. He's the crown jewel of PBS, the documentarian of America, the most influential documentary filmmaker of all time, the source for more Americans' understanding of
News Source: SF Gate
| 6 months ago
It was the worst man-made environmental disaster in the nation's history, but unlike other calamities of nature, this one took only 40 or 50 years to create. And once it started, it lasted a decade, claimed many lives, either through "dust pneumonia"
News Source: PRWeb
| 7 months ago
The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of
News Source: E! Online
| 7 months ago
MacKenzie Allen ( Geena Davis ), Commander in Chief Josiah Bartlet ( Martin Sheen ), The West Wing Paul Garcetti ( Adrian Pasdar ), Political Animals Fitzgerald Grant ( Tony Goldwyn ), Scandal Henry Hayes ( William Devane ), Stargate SG-1 John Keeler
News Source: The Huffington Post
| 7 months ago
The creative process behind the iconic theme song for 'E.T.' has been found. Drew Barrymore (Gertie) Drew Barrymore (Gertie) While Drew Barrymore starred in "E.T." at the tender age of seven, it was not her first time in front of the camera. Born