The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009•1 Seasons•6 Episodes•7.9•Ended
Documentary
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.
Network
PBS
Origin
US
Cast
Adam Arkin
Philip Bosco
Peter Coyote
Narrator
Amy Madigan
Tom Hanks
Murphy Guyer
Episodes
Recommended
7
NOVA
1974
7.4
Natural World
1983
7.6
Welcome to Earth
2021
7.6
Our Great National Parks
2022
8.6
Planet Earth
2006
8.5
Our Planet
2019
7.9
Nature
1982
8
Animal
2021
8.6
Planet Earth II
2016
6.5
American Experience
1988
7.7
Great Migrations
2010
7.9
Yellowstone: One-Fifty
2022
7.7
Yellowstone
2009
8.3
Prehistoric Planet
2022
8.1
Our Living World
2024
7
Man vs. Wild
2006
7.8
Welcome to Wrexham
2022
8.1
Earth at Night in Colour
2020
8.1
The Men Who Built America
2012
8.4
Nature's Great Events
2009
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