Henry Fonda stars in this Depression-era story of the Joad family, migrant workers, and the Dust Bowl. Name the movie.

John Ford's 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Pulitzer-winning 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath is widely considered one of the best films of all time. Although fictional, the Joad family's story reflects the real-life experience of millions of Americans who were trapped in the Dust Bowl — a series of catastrophic dust storms across the central United States during the 1930s that rearranged the landscape, flattening homes and destroying agriculture. The impact on the people of the Plains states, who were already struggling with the Depression and years of severe drought, was devastating. Thousands died of starvation or pneumonia. Half a million people were rendered homeless through weather events or foreclosure. By the end of the decade, an estimated 3.5 million people migrated out of the Great Plains in search of work and opportunity.

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