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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

Documentary History

Storyline: Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries.

Release Date: 1997-06-24

Original Language: en

Original Title: Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

Status: Released

Runtime: 251 minutes

TagLine:

Rating: (0 votes)

Budget: $0

Revenue: $0

Production Companies: KTEH, PBS, Trans Pacific Television

Spoken Languages: English, Español

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Cast Members

Alfre Woodard (Narrator (voice))

41.03%

Marc Reisner (Self - Author, 'Cadillac Desert')

6.27%

Catherine Mulholland (Self - William Mullholand's Granddaughter)

6.08%

Clara Rambeau (Self - Elder, Owens Valley Paiute Tribe)

5.18%

Kevin Starr (Self - California State Librarian)

7.68%

Robert Towne (Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown')

29.02%

Ernie Kinney (Self - Owens Valley Resident)

5.25%

Cynthia Irwin (Self - Owens Valley Resident)

7.21%

Flora Nash (Self - Owens Valley Resident)

4.74%

Howard Holland (Self - Owens Valley Resident)

1.03%

Vernon Miller (Self - Chairman, Fort Independence Tribe)

1.59%

Robert Phillips (Self - General Manager, Chief Engineer 1972-75)

1.33%

George Miller (Self - Congressman, California)

1.54%

Elma Blaver (Self - Mono Lake Resident)

1.18%

Sally Gaines (Self - Co-Founder, Mono Lake Committee)

1.21%

David Gaines (Self - Co-Founder, Mono Lake Committee (archive footage))

1.00%

Augie Hess (Self - Mono Lake Resident)

1.31%

Patricia Mulroy (Self - Manager, Las Vegas Valley Water District)

1.09%

Blaine Hamann (Self - Manager, Hoover Dam)

6.24%

Barry Goldwater (Self - U.S. Senator, Arizona)

13.91%

Floyd Dominy (Self - Commissioner of Reclamation, 1959-1969)

1.00%

Daniel Beard (Self - Commissioner of Reclamation, 1993-1995)

1.84%

David Brower (Self - Executive Director, Sierra Club)

8.22%

Tommy Nelson (Self - Hoover Dam Construction Worker)

4.76%

Ila Clements (Self - Daughter of Hoover Dam Worker)

4.97%

Ferrell Secakuku (Self - Chairman, Hopi Tribe)

1.38%

David Wegner (Self - Manager, Glen Canyon Environmental Studies)

1.00%

Katie Lee (Self - River Runner)

1.39%

Martin Litton (Self - Sierra Club Board of Directors)

2.21%

Jack Woolf (Self - Grower)

1.00%

Leland Sparks (Self)

1.70%

Martin Semper (Self - Semper Truck Lines)

1.00%

Jeff Edwards (Self - Tulare Basin)

1.03%

Kathleen Brown (Self - California State Treasurer)

2.72%

Pete Peña Jr. (Self - Truck Driver)

1.00%

Pete Peña Sr. (Self - Farm Laborer)

1.00%

Jason Peltier (Self - Manager, CVP Water Association)

1.00%

Dean MacCannell (Self - Sociologist, University of California)

1.26%

Tony Silva (Self - Mayor of Huron, 1978)

2.01%

Gary Zahm (Self - US Fish & Wildlife Service)

1.87%

John Harris (Self - Westlands Grower)

2.06%

Sandra Postel (Self - Author, 'Last Oasis')

1.03%

Harris Chan (Self - Three Gorges Engineer)

1.23%

Tiahoga Ruge (Self - Director, CICEANA)

1.43%

Hillel Shuval (Self - Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

1.18%

Amos Banin (Self - Hebrew University, Rehovot)

1.00%

Jad Isaac (Self - Director, Applied Research Institute, Bethlehem)

1.00%

Dan Luecke (Self - Environmental Defense Fund)

1.00%

Charles Wilkinson (Self - Professor of Law, University of Colorado)

4.12%

Ken Strom (Self - National Audubon Society)

1.07%

Chips Barry (Self - Director, Denver Water Department)

1.72%

Steven Flanders (Self - City Ice Company)

1.00%

Glenn France (Self - Casa Del Agua, Tucson, AZ)

1.27%

Elsa Lopez (Self - Metropolitan Water District)

1.30%

Martha Davis (Self - Exec. Director, Mono Lake Committee)

1.00%

Alejandro Robles (Self - Conservation International)

1.00%

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Self (archive footage))

18.62%

John F. Kennedy (Self (archive footage))

28.01%

Jimmy Carter (Self (archive footage))

22.27%

Bill Clinton (Self (archive footage))

24.78%

George H. W. Bush (Self (archive footage))

21.14%