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    The Plow That Broke the Plains is a 1936 short documentary film that shows the cultivation of the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada following...
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    earlier 1936 documentary The Plow That Broke the Plains, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress...
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  • (season 10) – Surviving the Dust Bowl aired on PBS in 1998 The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936 documentary by Pare Lorentz) Series's official website...
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    Lawrence Rothman (category American film score composers)
    singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. Their most recent album The Plow That Broke the Plains was released in 2024. Rothman was born and raised in a middle...
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    Virgil Thomson (category American film score composers)
    Pare Lorentz and composed music for the documentary film The Plow That Broke the Plains for the United States government's Resettlement Administration (RA)...
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  • in the Land The Plow That Broke the Plains The Real Dirt on Farmer John The River Standing Silent Nation Strawberry Fields Sweetgrass The Tale of the Wonderful...
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    Pare Lorentz (category People of the United States Office of War Information)
    make a film, which became The Plow That Broke the Plains, a film that showed the natural and man–made devastation caused by the Dust Bowl. Though the tight...
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  • Nancy (Boyd) Willey (category Historic preservation in the United States)
    THE STORY OF SAG HARBOR Pamphlet – January 1, 1949 [1] Documentary - “The Plow That Broke The Plainsfilm by Pare Lorentz, 1936. "Plow that Broke the...
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    settlers and the US Army have made the Plains Indians archetypical in literature and art for American Indians everywhere.[citation needed] Plains Indians are...
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  • acclaimed film The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936), among others. Eventually, Hurwitz discovered the Workers Film and Photo League. The League, created...
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    Virgil Thomson's film score for The Plow that Broke the Plains. There is disagreement among experts about the meanings of some terms in the song, namely:...
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    Banquet, Brokeback Mountain Pare Lorentz: The Plow That Broke the Plains, The River Ida Lupino: Outrage, The Hitch-Hiker Terrence Malick: Badlands, Days of...
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    drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-5340-7. 1936 – The Plow That Broke the Plains – 25...
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  • Miriam Bucher (category American women film directors)
    of films such as The Plow that Broke the Plains. Together with her husband, filmmaker Jules Bucher, whom she married in 1940, she worked with the Motion...
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    about the Belgian coal mining region. Luis Buñuel directed a "surrealist" documentary Las Hurdes (1933). Pare Lorentz's The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)...
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  • as a cinematographer on Pare Lorentz' The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) and likewise joined Lorentz on The River (1938) but did not receive credit...
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    Robin Wright, based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film drew mixed reviews and just about broke even at the box office. His career...
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  • (1934) The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)≈ Reefer Madness (1936) As the Earth Turns (1938) The Blood of Jesus (1941)≈ Native Land (1942) Meshes of the Afternoon...
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  • PCE's presentation of three American documentaries, The Plow that Broke the Plains, The River, and The City, with original scores by Virgil Thomson generated...
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  • This article lists film and television works which feature or discuss the environment, environmentalism or environmental issues. Some notable and commercially...
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    Canada (category Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the symbol caption or type parameters)
    women pulling a plow that had been constructed for horses Because Britain still maintained control of Canada's foreign affairs under the British North America...
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  • Plot No. 5 (1981) Plot for Peace (2013) The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) Ploy (2007) Plucking the Daisy (1956) Plugg (1975) Plum Blossom (2000) Plunder...
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    Resettlement Administration (category 1935 establishments in the United States)
    Virgil Thomson, The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River. Sidney Robertson Cowell's recordings of folk songs, conducted during the summer of 1937,...
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    Thomas Hardie Chalmers (category American male film actors)
    His voice can be heard as the narrator in two documentary films by Pare Lorentz, The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1938), both with scores...
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  • at the age of 85, in 1985. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) Mato Grosso: the Great Brazilian Wilderness (1931) The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)...
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    beyond for a long time to come. Rayne (22 October 2014). "Plane Meets Plow: The Curious End of Total S.A. CEO Christophe de Margerie". Emptywheel. Retrieved...
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  • consisted of two bulldozer operators and one employee walking near the plow. Plowing started at the oil well location and had gone about 260 feet when it struck...
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    Scandinavia. The prairies, they were promised, did not mean backbreaking toil because "settling on the prairie which is ready for the plow is different...
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    Roger Ebert (category American film critics)
    lonely voice talking about the debt", proposing based on the film that the US government was "already broke". He opposed the war on drugs and capital punishment...
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    Paul Ivano (category French emigrants to the United States)
    cameraman who made the first aerial helicopter shots for an American feature film in Nicholas Ray's film noir They Live by Night. The Lawless Years "Paul...
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