Tuesday, 25 August 2009 19:09
His Arkansas Land
VHS, 60 min., 1981
This popular documentary portrays the development of Arkansas through the people whose livelihood depended on the land. It goes back some 200 years tracing the settlement of Arkansas, the Civil War, Reconstruction, King Cotton, the boll weevil, the Great Depression, and World War II. The struggle for survival has nearly destroyed the small family farmer; but agribusiness has pushed Arkansas into international prominence. Interviews with old farmers rekindle the warmth and wholeness of a life on the land that few experience today.
This popular documentary portrays the development of Arkansas through the people whose livelihood depended on the land. It goes back some 200 years tracing the settlement of Arkansas, the Civil War, Reconstruction, King Cotton, the boll weevil, the Great Depression, and World War II. The struggle for survival has nearly destroyed the small family farmer; but agribusiness has pushed Arkansas into international prominence. Interviews with old farmers rekindle the warmth and wholeness of a life on the land that few experience today.
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History