Ken Burns: The National Parks – Americas Best Idea DVD
Editorial Reviews
The National Parks tells the human history of five of the nation’s most important and most heavily visited National Parks (Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Acadia, and Great Smoky Mountains) and the unforgettable Americans who made them possible.
Length: 720 minutes on 6 Disc
Production Year: 2009
Subtitle Languages: English
Language Tracks: English
Director: Ken Burns
Narrator: Peter Coyote
Producer: Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan
Writer: Dayton Duncan
Disc One – The Making of The National Parks
Disc Two – Capturing the Parks (A behind-the-scenes look at filming of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea);
Disc Three – Musical Journeys through the National Parks (National Parks Timeline, Peace at Last/ Across the Ocean, Horizons, Green Groves of Erin, The Shores of Ogygia, Teddy Bears’ Picnic);
Disc Four – Outtakes (An Interview with Nevada Barr, author and former National Park Service ranger; and The Boss, the story of Frank Pinkley and Casa Grande. Narrated by Ken Burns);
Disc Five – The National Parks: This Is America (Mini Documentary);
Disc Six – Contemporary Stories from America’s National Parks (San Antonio Missions: Keeping History Alive, Yosemite’s Buffalo Soldiers, Mount Rushmore: Telling America’s Stories, Manzanar: “Never Again,” City Kids in National Parks).
Product details
Actors: Ken Burns
Format: Color, Dolby, Widescreen, PAL
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 4 for Australia
Number of discs: 6
Studio: PBS
DVD Release in: 2020
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