Men and Dust (1940)

Name: Men and Dust
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1940-11-08
Duration: 16 min
Cast: Will Geer, Storrs Haynes, Robert Porterfield, Eric Walz

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.