The National Parks : America's Best Idea. Disc 2, Episode Two, The Last Refuge (1890-1915)
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Originally broadcast on television.
Special features: Capturing the parks: a behind-the-scenes look.
Narrated by Peter Coyote.
At the end of the 19th century, some Americans begin to question the nation's headlong rush across the continent that has devastated forests and ravaged entire species of animals. Conservation's greatest champion is the new president, Theodore Roosevelt, who creates parks and wildlife refuges, and then audaciously uses the Antiquities Act to set aside 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon as a national monument. John Muir fights the battle of his life to prevent the city of San Francisco from burying the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park under a reservoir, and dies broken-hearted after he loses.
DVD, widescreen; 5.1 surround (English), 2.0 stereo (English, Spanish).
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PUBLISHED
Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: ILL
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Burns, Ken, 1953-
Duncan, Dayton.
Coyote, Peter.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Florentine Films.
WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
SUBJECTS
National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.
Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.) -- History.
Hetch Hetchy Valley (Calif.) -- History.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- History.
Documentary television programs.
Nature television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Television programs for people with visual disabilities.