The national parks [videorecording] : America's best idea / a film by Ken Burns ; a production of Florentine Films and WETA Television ; written by Dayton Duncan ; produced by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns.

The national parks [videorecording] : America's best idea / a film by Ken Burns ; a production of Florentine Films and WETA Television ; written by Dayton Duncan ; produced by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns.

0793694876
9780793694877

[United States] : The National Parks Film Project ; Distributed by PBS Distribution, c2009.

English

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
English or Spanish dialogue; English or Spanish subtitles.

6 videodiscs (750 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

841887009881

SB482.A4 D85 2009b

333.7830973

NPAB600D PBS

Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and save them from destruction.

Originally broadcast as episodes of the television documentary on PBS in 2009.
Special features: Making of ; capturing the parks: a behind-the-scenes look ; musical journeys through the parks ; outtakes: an interview with Nevada Barr & "The Boss" ; mini-documentary: The National Parks: This is America ; contemporary stories from America's national parks: series of five short films.
Narrator: Peter Coyote.

Not rated.

DVD, widescreen, Dolby digital 5.1 surround or 2.0 stereo., NTSC, region 1.

National parks, this is America.
Capturing the parks.

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