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    whatwouldbukowskido
    Feb 04, 02:40am

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2357472/

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032551/

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    whatwouldbukowskido
    Feb 04, 03:21am

    Ken Burns documentary of the worst environmental/economical/man-made disaster in American history.

    That everyone has forgotten about.

    As for the movie...

    EVERYONE in it earned my personal Oscar.

  • Frankie Saxx
    Feb 04, 04:44pm

    That looks good.

  • Frankie Saxx
    Feb 04, 04:49pm

    Seen www.imdb.com/title/tt0319969 ?

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Feb 04, 08:03pm

    The character of the preacher in Grapes of Wrath deserves a novel of his own.

    The Ken Burns documentary is stunning in its implications.

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    whatwouldbukowskido
    Feb 04, 08:47pm

    Ken Burns (and his helpers/associates/employees/staff--for no one man can do this on his own) is a god/master artist.

    I found the Dust Bowl docu. almost unbearable to watch, after a while, with its unending, hellacious, near-psychosis-inducing-torment-of-biblical-proportion of the people involved.

    Plagues of rabbits, plagues of grasshoppers.

    Salt of the earth indeed.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTnVMulDTYA

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    Sally Houtman
    Feb 04, 10:30pm

    Watched the previews and intro on YouTube. Looks incredible. Will check it out.

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    Charlotte Hamrick
    Feb 05, 12:10am

    I started watching when it first aired on PBS but it was so emotionally draining I couldn't finish it.
    Maybe I should try again.

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    whatwouldbukowskido
    Feb 05, 12:43am

    It was a natural (drought)/man-made (over-plowing) disaster that went

    on and on and on and on and on

    like some B-Grade 1950s horror movie for almost a decade.

    At the height/depths of the Depression.

    It damn near turned the "bread basket" of America into a Saharan desert.

    And we think we have troubles now?

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    Sally Houtman
    Feb 05, 09:23am

    Just watched the first two-hour segment and am emotionally drained.

    How much can people possibly endure?

    And yet they endure.

    (Had no idea Woody Guthrie had lived through that storm...)

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    Sally Houtman
    Feb 08, 09:57am

    Finished the last segment.

    An important and, yes, largely forgotten, piece of American history, masterfully (and movingly) documented.

    Glad to have seen this. Thanks for pointing it out.

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