Grand Coulee Dam

Film

Grand Coulee Dam

6.020171h 23mNRHistoryDocumentary
United States
Age rating
NR
Director
Stephen Ives
Year
2017

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.

Top cast

Directed by

Stephen Ives

Written by

Rob Rapley

Produced by

Sharon Grimberg, Amanda Pollak