The National Parks: America's Best Idea The Empire of Grandeur (Season 1, Episode 3)
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TV Episode | 111 min | Documentary, History

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The National Parks: America's Best Idea

The Empire of Grandeur (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV-G

TV Episode | 111 min | Documentary, History

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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28 cast members

Name	Known for
Peter Coyote Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Bitter Moon (1992)
Shelton Johnson Self - Park Ranger Self - Park Ranger See fewer	The Unruly Mystic: John Muir (2018)
William Cronon Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life (1997)
Kim Heacox Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer (1975)
Terry Tempest Williams Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Carl Pope Self - Sierra Club Self - Sierra Club See fewer	The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Dayton Duncan Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	The Dust Bowl (2012)
George Hartzog Self - Former Park Service Director Self - Former Park Service Director See fewer	The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Alfred Runte Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	National Parks Revealed (2006)
Gerard Baker Self - Park Superintendent Self - Park Superintendent See fewer	The American Buffalo (2023)
Judith Goldstein Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Brad Washburn Self - Explorer Self - Explorer See fewer	The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Bill Brown Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Barbara Washburn Self - Explorer Self - Explorer See fewer	The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
J.L. Crawford Self - Former Ranger Self - Former Ranger See fewer	The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Sam Waterston Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	The Killing Fields (1984)
Adam Arkin Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	Get Shorty (2017)
Trina Carmody Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Murphy Guyer Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	Arthur (I) (2011)
Derek Jacobi Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	Gosford Park (2001)
Josh Lucas Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	Ford v Ferrari (2019)
Lee Stetson Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	Return (I) (1985)
Philip Bosco Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	The Savages (2007)
Kevin Conway Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	Atomic Train (1999)
Tom Hanks Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	Cast Away (2000)
John Lithgow Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	The World According to Garp (1982)
Campbell Scott Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	Big Night (1996)
John Trudell Reader (voice) Reader (voice) See fewer	On Deadly Ground (1994)