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Series Title The Plow That Broke the Plains

Filmmaker Pare Lorentz

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The first fence. Progress came to the plains.

High winds and sun. High winds and sun. A country without rivers, and with little rain. Settler, plow at your peril.

Two hundred miles from water! Two hundred miles from town! But the land is new.

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The Plow That Broke the Plains, a documentary about the New Deal by Pare Lorentz. Two minutes, 11 seconds.

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