''The National Parks: America's Best Idea'' is a 2009
television documentary
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miniseries by director/producer
Ken Burns
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and producer/writer
Dayton Duncan which features the
United States National Park system and
traces the system's history.
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a July 2008 press release from the PBS website The series won two 2010
Emmy Awards; one for
Outstanding Nonfiction Series and one for
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming in Episode 2 "The Last Refuge". A companion book () was released alongside.
Cast
Peter Coyote is the narrator of all episodes, with first-person voices supplied by
Adam Arkin,
Philip Bosco,
Kevin Conway,
Andy García,
Tom Hanks
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