The Johnstown Flood is a 1989 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Johnstown Flood.Johnstown Flood: McCullough’s ‘Lucky Break’ Launched Career|90.5 WESA An expanded version of the film aired on the television series American Experience in 1991.
Plot The film tells the story of the flooding of the blue collar industrial city known as Johnstown, Pennsylvania and the 2,000 residents who lived there caused by heavy rains on the neglected South Fork Dam owned by wealthy industrialists from Pittsburgh who used it as apleasure lake for their families.Letterboxd
Cast Len Cariou as narrator
Accolades The film won the Oscar at the 62nd Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject.132nd anniversary of the Johnstown Flood|WJAC
See also Still image film Ken Burns effect Reenactments
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