Special Features
When an earthen dam broke without warning, a small city in Pennsylvania was swept away in a wall of water over 30 feet high.
Yosemite - The Fate of Heaven
This stunning film portrait of Yosemite National Park uses the 1851 diary of the first expedition of soldiers into the Native American territory.
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Lost in the Grand Canyon
John Wesley Powell's epic journey into the unknown Grand Canyon was filled with adventure as his team mapped the Colorado River for the first time.
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Wild By Law
Robert Marshall, Aldo Leopold and Howard Zahniser dedicated their lives to protect the shrinking American wilderness.
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Surviving the Dust Bowl
The story of the farmers who dreamed of prosperity and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death.
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The Great Famine
The American effort to relieve starvation in Soviet Russia in 1921 during the worst natural disaster in Europe in 500 years.
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The Hurricane of '38
Before radar had been invented a devastating hurricane hit America, surprising residents of the East Coast and killing more than 600 people.
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Her 1963 warnings about the effects of pesticides and herbicides sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
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Battle for Wilderness
President Theodore Roosevelt was caught in the middle of the first major battle for wilderness preservation in Yosemite National Park.
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