Episodes
The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.
Extras
By 1937, the Dust Bowl farmers are asking for government help.
As the Great Depression sets in, farmers on the Great Plains begin to feel its effects.
The Dust Bowl was a decade-long natural catastrophe of biblical proportions.
Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan, Julie Dunfey and Susan Shumaker talk about making The Dust Bowl.
The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history