Plow That Broke the Plains 1936
First we cleared the Indian. Then we cleared the buffalo.” Gosh, didn’t they have a UN back in the 1800s to stop ethnic cleansing? Guess not. They could have sent Canadian troops into the Kansas region to stop the predominantly Christian Yankees from murdering the Ethnic Indians. This movie is full of a narrator shouting about ‘the wheat’ and weird shots of everything from WWI tanks to starving kids and Okies packing their trucks to go west. People say that modern TV news is all flash and no substance. Apparently things were the same in the 1939 though. The end shows how the great Federal Government is setting up agencies to prevent the topsoil from being blown away as it was during the ‘dust bowl’. The govt is also helping all those poor refugees from the drought who had to pack up and move west. Yeah Right.
