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The National Parks: America's Best Idea: With Peter Coyote, William Cronon, Dayton Duncan, Shelton Johnson. The history of the U.S. National Parks system, including the initial ideas which led to the world's first national parks and the expansion of the system over 150 years.
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- 2009-09-27
- Documentary, History
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Amazon Video. Apple iTunes. The National Parks: America's Best Idea is story of an idea as American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical. Full documentary by Ken...
The National Parks: America's Best Idea is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation...
Jul 29, 2022 · National Parks, Ken Burns, PBS. Simultaneously a biography of both historical and contemporary characters and a uniquely American idea, this 12-hour, six-part documentary, directed by Ken Burns and co-produced with writer Dayton Duncan, traces the evolution of national parks beginning in the mid-1800s and follows it over the next 150 years.
- 697 min
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a 2009 television documentary miniseries by director/producer Ken Burns and producer/writer Dayton Duncan which features the United States National Park system and traces the system's history.
- Documentary
- Peter Coyote
Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature’s most spectacular locales— from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska— THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background—rich ...
Horace Kephart and George Masa launch a campaign to save the forests of the Smoky Mountains from destruction by establishing a national park. Franklin D. Roosevelt enters battles to create national parks on the Olympic Peninsula, Florida’s Everglades, and California’s High Sierra.