• 2009
  • 1h 55m
The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Summary 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. View more details

  • 2009
  • 1h 55m

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Peter Coyote Dayton Duncan William Cronon Shelton Johnson

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8.6

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Sep 26, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Florentine Films WETA

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Sep 26, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Florentine Films WETA

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 26, 2009
The Scripture of Nature
A study of the first ideas which led to the establishment of America's national parks, with an emphasis on the work of John Muir and the exploration and preservation of Yosemite and Yellowstone.
Episode 2 • Sep 27, 2009
The Last Refuge
Americans begin to question the nation's rush across the continent that has devastated forests and ravaged animals. Conservation's greatest champion is Theodore Roosevelt, who sets aside 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon.
Episode 3 • Sep 28, 2009
The Empire of Grandeur
Stephen Mather accepts the offer to oversee the national parks for one year. He launches a campaign to publicize the parks as a unified system and to persuade Congress to create a single agency to oversee it: the National Park Service.
Episode 4 • Sep 29, 2009
Going Home
Mather and Albright ally themselves with the automobile to "democratize" the national parks. Horace Kephart and George Masa launch a campaign to save the forests of the Smoky Mountains from destruction by establishing a national park.
Episode 5 • Sep 30, 2009
Great Nature
Franklin D. Roosevelt enters battles to create national parks on the Olympic Peninsula, Florida's Everglades, and California's High Sierra. George Melendez Wright begins arguing that the parks are not doing enough to protect wildlife.
Episode 6 • Oct 01, 2009
The Morning of Creation
After World War II, an increasingly mobile nation visits the parks as never before. When Jimmy Carter sets aside 56 million acres in Alaska-the largest grassroots movement in conservation history fights for the creation of seven new parks.

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