The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Season 1 Episode 3: The Empire of Grandeur: 1915-1919

Sep 29, 2009 NR 1h 51m 8.4

Stephen Mather accepts the offer to oversee the national parks for one year. He launches a campaign to publicize the parks as a unified system and to persuade Congress to create a single agency to oversee it: the National Park Service.

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Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Scripture of Nature: 1851-1890

1. The Scripture of Nature: 1851-1890

Aired: Sep 27, 2009

A study of the first ideas which led to the establishment of America's nation...

Episode 2 The Last Refuge: 1890-1915

2. The Last Refuge: 1890-1915

Aired: Sep 28, 2009

Americans begin to question the nation's rush across the continent that has d...

Episode 3 The Empire of Grandeur: 1915-1919

3. The Empire of Grandeur: 1915-1919

Aired: Sep 29, 2009

Stephen Mather accepts the offer to oversee the national parks for one year. ...

Episode 4 Going Home: 1920-1933

4. Going Home: 1920-1933

Aired: Sep 30, 2009

Mather and Albright ally themselves with the automobile to "democratize" the ...

Episode 5 Great Nature: 1933-1945

5. Great Nature: 1933-1945

Aired: Oct 1, 2009

Franklin D. Roosevelt enters battles to create national parks on the Olympic ...

Episode 6 The Morning of Creation: 1946-1980

6. The Morning of Creation: 1946-1980

Aired: Oct 2, 2009

After World War II, an increasingly mobile nation visits the parks as never b...

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Main Cast

Peter Coyote Narrator

Appearances

Terry Tempest Williams

Creators

Ken Burns Director

Dayton Duncan

Dayton Duncan Writer

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Current Status: Ended

Network: PBS

Genres: Documentary, History

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