Release Date

18 Apr, 2017

Runtime

01:23: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Grand Coulee Dam

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Actors

Michael Murphy

Crew

Rob Rapley

Stephen Ives

Peter Rundquist

Adam Zucker

Lauren DeFilippo

Kyle Kelley

Mark Samels

Andrew Young

Sharon Grimberg

Amanda Pollak

Stephen Ives