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Special Focus: National Parks

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

 

Premieres Sunday, September 27, 2009 on
WETA TV 26 & WETA HD

The National Parks: America's Best Idea
is a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington, D.C.


Video clips

Did you know there are more than 60 national parks located right in Washington's backyard? Scroll through the video player below to watch clips that showcase some of these special natural and historic places!

  • Digital stories from local students who participated in the NPS's Students Teaching About Monumental Park Sites camp in Washington, DC. (produced in collaboration with the National Park Service (NCR) and the Center for Digital Storytelling)
  • Spotlights on local National Parks produced by WETA Television
  • An interview with Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan from WETA's The Book Studio
  • The National Parks: America's Best Idea series trailer.

 

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You own the national parks

Let WETA and Ken Burns give you the grand tour. The national parks cover 84 million acres. And it belongs to all of us. Now see this spectacular land as few ever have. Meet the people who fought to preserve it. And discover how, as Americans, we’re not only connected to this land but connected by it.

Visit the The National Parks: America’s Best Idea website at www.pbs.org/nationalparks for extensive information about the series and America’s national parks.

A WETA co-production

The National Parks: America’s Best Idea is a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington, DC. Learn about the more than 20 year creative partnership between Ken Burns and WETA.

Director/producer: Ken Burns. Producer/Writer: Dayton Duncan. Co-producers: Craig Mellish, Julie Dunfey and David McMahon. Supervising Editor: Paul Barnes. Episode Editors: Paul Barnes, Erik Ewers and Craig Mellish. Cinematography: Buddy Squires, with Allen Moore, Lincoln Else and Ken Burns. Narrator: Peter Coyote.

Funding is provided by General Motors; Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Park Foundation, Inc.; Public Broadcasting Service; National Park Foundation; The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; The Pew Charitable Trusts and Bank of America.

Funding for local outreach activities is provided by Park Foundation, Inc. and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.