When it comes to ecological disaster, thoughts turn to events like the Exxon Valdex or BP oil spills, but filmmaker Ken Burns says they pale in comparison to the Dust Bowl. That period in the mid 1930 ...

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AMARILLO, Texas — The maker of blockbuster documentaries "The Civil War" and "Baseball" has turned his attention to the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s. Ken Burns tells the Amarillo Globe-News in Friday's ...

Farm with huge dust cloud approaching, dust storm near barn. April 15, 1935. Boise City, Oklahoma.AP350415017—AP1935 Ken Burns has a gift for making documentaries that are not at all about today’s ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns addresses this question and more in “The Dust Bowl,” a new two-part, four-hour documentary that airs at 7 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Wednesday on PBS (Time Warner Cable channels 12 and ...

The Oklahoma Educational Television Authority is holding a free public preview of acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns' latest documentary "The Dust Bowl" at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at the OSU-Tulsa Student ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- It was during a lunch break more than 30 years ago that Jim Pontarelli starting combing through the Dust Bowl photographs.

If it’s an important slice of American history, you can bet Ken Burns has made a documentary about it. The list is nearly endless. From baseball to jazz, Mark Twain to Ernest Hemingway, the Civil War ...

Told over six installments, "The American Revolution" is an expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and ...