Movie

Men and Dust

Name: Men and Dust
Released: 1940
Duration: 16 min
Cast: Will Geer, Storrs Haynes, Robert Porterfield, Eric Walz

film with a runtime of 16 minutes, released in 1940. Presented in English.

At a Glance

Year1940

TypeMovie

LanguageEnglish

Synopsis

This labor advocacy film is about diseases plaguing miners in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Sponsored by the Tri-State Survey Committee, "Men and Dust" is a stylistically innovative documentary and a valuable ecological record of landscapes radically transformed by extractive industry.