TY - ADVS AU - Burns,Ken AU - Coyote,Peter AU - Duncan,Dayton ED - Florentine Films. ED - Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm) ED - PBS Home Video. ED - Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) ED - WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.) TI - The national parks: America's best idea SN - 0793694876 PY - 2009/// CY - [United States], Hollywood, Calif. PB - PBS Home Video, Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment KW - United States KW - National Park Service KW - History KW - National parks and reserves KW - Nature conservation KW - Documentary television programs KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally broadcast as episodes of the television documentary on PBS in 2009; Special features: Making of ; capturing the parks: a behind-the-scenes look ; musical journeys through the parks ; outtakes: an interview with Nevada Barr & "The Boss" ; mini-documentary: The National Parks: This is America ; contemporary stories from America's national parks: series of five short films; [Disc 1] Episode one. The scripture of nature (1851-1890) -- [Disc 2] Episode two. The last refuge (1890-1915) -- [Disc 3] Episode three. The empire of grandeur (1915-1919) -- [Disc 4] Episode four. Going home (1920-1933) -- [Disc 5] Episode five. Great nature (1933-1945) -- [Disc 6] Episode six. The morning of creation (1946-1980); Cinematography, Buddy Squires, Allen Moore, Lincoln Else, Ken Burns ; supervising film editor, Paul Barnes ; episode editors, Paul Barnes, Craig Mellish, Erik Ewers; Narrator: Peter Coyote; Not rated N2 - Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and save them from destruction ER -