The Plow That Broke the Plains

Pare Lorentz

Presenting the New Deal’s solutions to America’s self-inflicted wounds, the ‘musical documentary’ that launched the US government’s ambitious experiment in film production led Lorentz, who had never made a film, to become ‘FDR’s Moviemaker’.

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Introduction by Tom Hurwitz on October 21st

Sessions

One Screening Only
21 Oct • 21:30 / 68’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / Propagandists of the World, Unite! [Reenactment]

One Screening Only
23 Oct • 15:30 / 109’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / Lorentz & Vidor