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Flood in the Desert

The monument to the triumph of man over natureand to William Mulholland gets buried in...

The monument to the triumph of man over nature
and to William Mulholland gets buried in dirt

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The monument to
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the triumph of man over nature and to William Mulholland
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gets buried in dirt.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
00:47:22
Uploaded
Mar 28, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history

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Movie Summary

Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the 2nd deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via ...
People in Hollywood no longer have to be reminded - Flood in the Desert 00:10
People in Hollywood no longer have to be reminded
Mulholland had a stroke - Flood in the Desert 00:08
Mulholland had a stroke
At family gathering, he would just - Flood in the Desert 00:08
At family gathering, he would just
William Mulholland died in Los Angeles - Flood in the Desert 00:12
William Mulholland died in Los Angeles
And in this story, Mulholland is the villain. - Flood in the Desert 00:08
And in this story, Mulholland is the villain.
There's lots of other folks, including - Flood in the Desert 00:07
There's lots of other folks, including
This is a communal effort. - Flood in the Desert 00:05
This is a communal effort.
The St. Francis Dam had largely disappeared - Flood in the Desert 00:15
The St. Francis Dam had largely disappeared
The Hoover Dam - Flood in the Desert 00:12
The Hoover Dam
I think a lot of good things come out of failures. - Flood in the Desert 00:06
I think a lot of good things come out of failures.
We pull back, - Flood in the Desert 00:08
We pull back,
St. Francis Dam had a huge impact on Hoover Dam. - Flood in the Desert 00:06
St. Francis Dam had a huge impact on Hoover Dam.
Where the St. Francis Dam had been largely - Flood in the Desert 00:17
Where the St. Francis Dam had been largely
It captured the imagination - Flood in the Desert 00:08
It captured the imagination
Immense dams became defining monuments of the age. - Flood in the Desert 00:07
Immense dams became defining monuments of the age.
The legacy of the St. Francis Dam disaster - Flood in the Desert 00:37
The legacy of the St. Francis Dam disaster
And water our crops," - Flood in the Desert 00:08
And water our crops,"
The idea that moving water from one geography - Flood in the Desert 00:10
The idea that moving water from one geography
But in some ways, - Flood in the Desert 00:08
But in some ways,
It got us in the situation we're in today. - Flood in the Desert 00:07
It got us in the situation we're in today.