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The American Experience: The Big Burn
Year
2015
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
1h 0m
Rating
NR
CC
Performers
Oliver Platt
Directed By
Stephen Ives
Publication Information
PBS
Summary
Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.