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The National Parks: America's Best Idea
| The National Parks: America's Best Idea | |
| Premiere | September 27, 2009 |
| Finale | October 2, 2009 |
| Creator | Ken Burns & Dayton Duncan |
| Network/Provider | PBS |
| Style | 120-minute historical documentary miniseries |
| Company | Florentine Films, WETA |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Origin | USA |
The National Parks: America's Best Idea is an historical documentary miniseries that aired on PBS.
The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. 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.
Contents |
Cast
| Actor | Character |
|---|---|
| Narrators | |
| Peter Coyote | Main Narrator |
| Readers | |
| Adam Arkin | |
| Tom Bodett | |
| Philip Bosco | |
| Trina Carmody | |
| Tim Clark | |
| Kevin Conway | |
| Andy Garcia | |
| Murphy Guyer | |
| Tom Hanks | |
| Derek Jacobi | |
| Gene Jones | |
| James Kyson Lee | |
| John Lithgow | |
| Josh Lucas | |
| Carl Lumbly | |
| Amy Madigan | |
| Carolyn McCormick | |
| Albert McFadyen | |
| Yumi Mizui | |
| Campbell Scott | |
| Lee Stetson | Muir Historian / Reader |
| Marcus Lovell Smith | |
| George Takei | |
| John Trudell | |
| Sho Wada | |
| Eli Wallach | |
| Sam Waterston | |
Episodes
| # | Title | Airdate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Scripture of Nature (1851-1890) |
September 27, 2009 | |||||
| 2 | The Last Refuge (1890-1915) |
Septemebr 28, 2009 | |||||
| 3 | The Empire of Grandeur (1915-1919) |
September 29, 2009 | |||||
| 4 | Going Home (1920-1933) |
September 30, 2009 | |||||
| 5 | Great Nature (1933-1945) |
October 1, 2009 | |||||
| 6 | The Morning of Creation (1946-1980) |
October 2, 2009 |
In-Depth
- At a Glance: Additional information about the series
DVD and Blu-ray Releases
DVD
| Title | Release | Discs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete Series (Region 1) | ||||||
| The National Parks: America's Best Idea | October 6, 2009 | purchase | 6 | |||
Blu-ray
| Title | Release | Discs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete Series (Region A/1) | ||||||
| The National Parks: America's Best Idea | October 6, 2009 | purchase | 6 | |||
Companion Books
| Title | Release | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The National Parks: America's Best Idea | September 8, 2009 | purchase |
Soundtrack Releases
| Title | Release | Tracks | Discs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The National Parks: America's Best Idea: The Soundtrack Music by Bobby Horton, et al. |
September 8, 2009 | 20 | 1 |
