Series · Documentary
The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
★ 7.9 · 23 votes1 season · 6 episodesDocumentary2009
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 and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.
- Writers
- Dayton Duncan
- Network
- PBS
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- First aired
- September 27, 2009
- Status
- Ended
Cast
Adam Arkin
Philip Bosco
Peter CoyoteNarrator
Amy Madigan
Tom Hanks
Murphy Guyer
Episodes
0/6 watched- Episode 1: The Scripture of Nature (1851 – 1890)1 h 54 min · Sep 27, 2009
- Episode 2: The Last Refuge (1890 – 1915)2 h 11 min · Sep 28, 2009
- Episode 3: The Empire of Grandeur (1915 – 1919)1 h 51 min · Sep 29, 2009
- Episode 4: Going Home (1920 – 1933)1 h 55 min · Sep 30, 2009
- Episode 5: Great Nature (1933 – 1945)1 h 54 min · Oct 1, 2009
- Episode 6: The Morning of Creation (1946 – 1980)1 h 54 min · Oct 2, 2009
