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How do you bring the Dust Bowl back to life? Get Ken Burns to make a film about it. The preeminent documentarian’s latest act, The Dust Bowl, airing November 18 and 19 at 8 p.m. on PBS, is a two-part, four-hour look at “a decade-long natural catastrophe of biblical proportions.” In the 1930s, America’s agricultural…

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns is back with a new meditation on our recent past, this time taking a close look at the devastation in the Heartland in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl. His new film, The Dust Bowl, airs on PBS November 18 and 19 at 8 ET. Burns spoke with NG’s Jeff Hertrick…