#23 on AFI's 10th Anniversary List of the 100 Greatest American Films of All Time
A 1940 drama film directed by John Ford, based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The film tells the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family, who, after losing their farm during the Great Depression in the 1930s, become migrant workers and end up in California. The motion picture details their arduous journey across the United States as they travel to California in search of work and opportunities for the family members.
In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
This cache is part of the AFI Top 100 Films Challenge (100 caches to be placed in Southern MN)