During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It would be the "Biggest Thing on Earth," the salvation of the common man, a dam and irrigation project that would make the desert bloom, a source of cheap power that would boost an entire region of the country. Of the many public works projects of the New Deal, Grand Coulee Dam loomed largest in America's imagination, promising to fulfill President Franklin Roosevelt's vision for a "planned promised land" where hard-working farm families would finally be free from the drought and dislocation caused by the elements.
Michael Murphy
Narrator
Flood in the Desert
The Dam Busters
Dams: The Lethal Water Bombs
James Bay 1975: The Shock of Two Nations
Who Killed the Federal Theatre?
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
Manufactured Landscapes
Oravská priehrada
Prvý vážsky stupeň
Gorges du Verdon: Les défis du plus grand canyon d'Europe
FDR: A Presidency Revealed
FDR
