The National Parks: America's Best Idea
September 25th, 2009MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow discusses the upcoming documentary with film maker Ken Burns…
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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.
It premieres Sunday, September 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on a public television station near you. Be there or be square…
September 26th, 2009 at 9:48 am
National Parks were an idea that came from Teddy Roosevelt, whose presidency ended 100 years ago this year.
Unfortunately, the ten decades since have not seen too many other good ideas emanating from the White House or Congress.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:43 am
This should be great viewing in HD…
October 7th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
You’ve been making some damn good pictures, Glynn. Time for a ‘Bama Book?
October 7th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
If you mean the one on the news page, that’s in Tennessee in the Nantahala National Forest.