Stunning

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 1999)

The leitmotifs in both the cinematography and the film score are second to none. For a nonfictional depiction of this era, see _The Plow that Broke the Plains_, 1936, a USDA documentary which attempted to explain the Dustbowl to its embattled victims. Even more than _Triumph of the Will_, it served as THE model for American documentary filmmakers for several decades thereafter.