The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
- Directed by
- Ken Burns
- Genre
- nature documentary
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 22 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary series tells the story of how the United States national parks were created. It follows the people who fought to protect these wild places.
contemplativeinspiringeducationalwistfulslow-pacedreverenthopefulnostalgic
What happens
The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a 2009 television documentary miniseries by director/producer Ken Burns and producer/writer Dayton Duncan which features the United States National Park system and traces the system's history. The series won two 2010 Emmy Awards; one for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and one for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming in Episode 2 "The Last Refuge". A companion book (ISBN 978-0307268969) was released alongside. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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