The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Season 1 Episode 1 : The Scripture of Nature (1851-1890)

Watch HD The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Available Formats The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Secure Scanned : 05/16/2025 Watch HD Download HD

The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Season 1 Episode 1

The National Parks: America's Best Idea 2009 -

Title: The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Season 1 Episode 1
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
Cast: Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Peter Coyote, Amy Madigan, Tom Hanks, Murphy Guyer
Crew: Ken Burns (Director), Julie A. Dunfey (Producer), Ken Burns (Producer), Dayton Duncan (Writer)
Alternative Titles:
Keyword: national park, nature, america

Overview:In 1851, word spreads across the country of a beautiful area of California's Yosemite Valley, attracting visitors who wish to exploit the land's scenery for commercial gain and those who wish to keep it pristine. Among the latter is a Scottish-born wanderer named John Muir, for whom protecting the land becomes a spiritual calling. In 1864, Congress passes an act that protects Yosemite from commercial development for "public use, resort and recreation" - the first time in world history that any government has put forth this idea - and hands control of the land to California. Meanwhile, a "wonderland" in the northwest corner of the Wyoming territory attracts visitors to its bizarre landscape of geysers, mud pots and sulfur pits. In 1872, Congress passes an act to protect this land as well. Since it is located in a territory, rather than a state, it becomes America's first national park: Yellowstone.

Watch Trailer

First Air Date: Sep 27, 2009 Last Air date: Oct 02, 2009 Season: 1 Season Episode: 6 Episode Runtime: 120:14 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 2.8 / 10 by 19 users Popularity: 9.248 Language: en

Season 0

Season 1

1. The Scripture of Nature (1851-1890)2009-09-27
Watch
2. The Last Refuge (1890-1915)2009-09-28
Watch
3. The Empire of Grandeur (1915-1919)2009-09-29
Watch
4. Going Home (1920-1933)2009-09-30
Watch
5. Great Nature (1933-1945)2009-10-01
Watch
6. The Morning of Creation (1946-1980)2009-10-02
Watch

Comment

Similar TV Shows

8
HD

Expedition Borneo

7
HD

Den stora älgvandringen

0
HD

The Wild Canadian Year

0
HD

Len rieka nestarne

0
HD

Príbeh rieky Hornád

8.6
HD

Planet Earth

0
HD

Fierce Earth

8
HD

Nature Is Speaking

0
HD

Farmářská jízda

8.2
HD

Cities: Nature's New Wild

7.3
HD

Wild Arabia

7.5
HD

Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero

0
HD

Megafauna: What Killed Australia's Giants?

8
HD

Asia's Weirdest

0
HD

Tierkinder der Wildnis

0
HD

Österreichs Bergdörfer

8
HD

Merveilles de la nature

0
HD

Zatopené osudy

0
HD

Nature's Microworlds

10
HD