The 1930s. Disc 3, [videorecording] Hoover Dam / WGBH Educational Foundation ; a Firstlight Pictures production for American Experience ; series producer, Sharon Grimberg ; produced, written and directed by Stephen Stept.
"American Experience"--Container. "PBS"--Container. "WGBH"--Container. Full screen version. Special features: printable materials for educators ; access to the American Experience web site. Originally broadcast on television in 1999 as an episode of American Experience. Special features: Printable material for educators; Access to the 'American experience' web site.
Contents:
Introduction -- Harnessing the Colorado River -- The six companies -- Workers' lives in the desert -- "The eighth wonder of the world.
Summary:
An ambitious engineer turned a ragtag army of unemployed into a celebrated work force to create the Hoover Dam, a colossus rising 700 feet above the Colorado River that became a beacon of hope in dire times, bringing electricity and water to millions in the U.S. west.
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