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Ken Burns: National Parks - America's Best Idea List Price: $99.99 Sale Price: $45.91 Average Rating:   |
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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.It is a story full of struggle and conflict high ideals and crass opportunism stirring adventure and enduring inspiration - set against the most breathtaking backdrops imaginable. ?The National Parks America?s Best Idea? is stunning and restorative like the parks themselves.? Timothy Egan NEW YORK TIMES July 12 2009 ??The National Parks? film ? thoughtful reflective powerful ? is vintage Burns another of his pulse takes on America?s institutions and characters a la his long looks at jazz the Civil War baseball Mark Twain and other subjects.? ? Brett Johnson VENTURA COUNTY STAR March 20 2009 ?With their next documentary ? 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea' ? the filmmakers take on their greenest project yet delving into the often-contentious history of our 58 national parks while probing the notion that our best landscapes should be preserved for everyone.? ?Scott Learn THE OREGONIAN March 6 2009 Burns is erudite and entertaining and in an era when old-fashioned storytelling is threatened with becoming blasé encouraging as well. Few other filmmakers make history seem so compelling make the viewers feel as much a part of the story as what is being shown onscreen.? ? Chris Kaltenback BALTIMORE SUN March 4 2009 Bonus Features: Featurettes Outtakes The National Parks: This is America The Making of The Nationa |
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea [Blu-ray] List Price: $129.99 Sale Price: $58.49 Average Rating:  |
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The National Parks (six episodes, twelve hours) tells the human history of five of the nation’s most important and most heavily visited National Parks (Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Acadia, and Great Smoky Mountains) and the unforgettable Americans who made them possible. Set against some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, each park’s story is filled with incidents and characters as gripping and fascinating as American history has to offer. Woven into the series will also be a broader, evolving story of the very idea of National Parks, as uniquely an American concept as jazz, baseball, and the Declaration of Independence as well as the expanding, constantly changing National Parks system (encompassing stories from other parks) and the growing role they all have come to play in our nation's sense of itself, its past, and its future. |
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea & Great Lodges Of The National Parks Collection - Combo Pack of 9 DVDs List Price: $134.98 Sale Price: $79.98 |
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Contains approximately 18 hours of stunningly picturesque footage on a total of 9 DVDs from PBS. This outstanding set includes the beautiful Ken Burns boxed-set The National Parks - America's Best Idea along with its natural companion piece, Great Lodges Of The National Parks Collection. ~/~ THE NATIONAL PARKS - AMERICA'S BEST IDEA is Ken Burns story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved for everyone. The series traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years, chronicling the addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them. This film is presented on 6 DVDs (720 min.); widescreen format; Enhanced for 16x9 televisions; Audio: English 5.1 Surround, English 2.0 Stereo, Spanish 2.0 Stereo; Subtitles: English & Spanish; Described Video for the Visually Impaired ~/~ GREAT LODGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS is a collection of programs (360 min.) in a set of 3 mesmerizing DVDs showcasing the many ways you can enjoy the beauty of our National Parks. A sampling of just some of whats included: Yellowstone's Old Faithful Lodge, Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel, Grand Canyon Lodge on the canyon's North Rim & El Tovar on the South Rim, Zion Lodge in Utah's Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon Lodge, Paradise Inn, Timberline Lodge, Oregon Caves Chateau, Crater Lake Lodge, Glacier Park Lodge, Lake McDonald Lodge, Many Glacier Lodge and elaborate hiking huts at Sperry Chalet. |
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AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD (A FILM BY KEN BURNS THE NATIONAL PARKS (ONE DVD) |
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