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  1. Cast. Peter Coyote is the narrator of all episodes, with first-person voices supplied by Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Kevin Conway, Andy García, Tom Hanks, Derek Jacobi, Clay Jenkinson, John Lithgow, Josh Lucas, Carolyn McCormick, Campbell Scott, Gene Jones, George Takei, Eli Wallach and Sam Waterston. [1] .

  2. The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series produced by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan and written by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of...

  3. Play trailer 1:23. 16 Videos. 23 Photos. Documentary History. 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. Stars. Peter Coyote. William Cronon. Dayton Duncan.

    • (1.9K)
    • 2009-09-27
    • Documentary, History
    • 120
  4. A view of Grand Teton National Park, from “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” a new 12-hour documentary film made by Ken Burns, below. Craig Mellish. The Grand Canyon, Mr. Burns...

  5. Jul 29, 2022 · 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
  6. Watching Ken Burns’s The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, you see slow-moving visual pans of dramatic clouds crowning majestic mountaintops, rainbows flanking awesome waterfalls, and broad vistas of spectacular gorges without a person in sight. In the historic footage, you do see scenes with people, but the visual impression is ambivalent.

  7. The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are the tallest mountains in the Appalachian chain, hosting the world's greatest diversity of plant, animal, and insect life of any region in a...