The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)

About The National Parks: America's Best Idea

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.

The National Parks: America's Best Idea air dates

First aired

27 September 2009

Final episode aired

2 October 2009

Air dates: TMDB.

Cast and crew of The National Parks: America's Best Idea

• Adam Arkin(6 episodes)
• Philip Bosco(6 episodes)
• Peter Coyoteas Narrator(6 episodes)
• Amy Madigan(6 episodes)
• Tom Hanks(6 episodes)
• Murphy Guyer(6 episodes)

Director

Ken Burns

Writer

Dayton Duncan

Producer

Ken Burns, Julie A. Dunfey

Cast and crew: TMDB.