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

7.92h 0mDocumentary

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.

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Director: Ken Burns

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Adam Arkin as

Adam Arkin

Philip Bosco as

Philip Bosco

Peter Coyote as Narrator

Peter Coyote

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Amy Madigan as

Amy Madigan

Tom Hanks as

Tom Hanks

Murphy Guyer as

Murphy Guyer

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