Series · Documentary
The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)Specials
★ 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
0/16 watched- Episode 1: The Making of The National Parks: America's Best Idea25 min
- Episode 2: Capturing the Parks24 min
- Episode 3: National Parks Timeline9 min
- Episode 4: Peace at Last/Across the Ocean6 min
- Episode 5: Horizons2 min
- Episode 6: Green Groves of Erin3 min
- Episode 7: The Shores of Ogygia3 min
- Episode 8: Teddy Bears' Picnic3 min
- Episode 9: An Interview with Nevada Barr7 min
- Episode 10: "The Boss"10 min
- Episode 11: The National Parks: This is America44 min
- Episode 12: San Antonio Missions: Keeping History Alive12 min
- Episode 13: Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers12 min
- Episode 14: Mount Rushmore: Telling America's Stories10 min
- Episode 15: Manzanar: "Never Again"14 min
- Episode 16: City Kids in National Parks14 min
