Watch American Experience Season 2 Episode 14: Yosemite: Fate of Heaven

This much-honored PBS documentary series explores American history, one topic or person at a time. Its Peabody Award winners include profiles of FDR and Malcolm X, and such diverse topics as Nixon's 1972 trip to China, the controversy surrounding `Citizen Kane' when it was released, and the Battle of the Bulge. In addition, its Scottsboro Boys film won an...

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Season 2, Episode 14 Yosemite: Fate of Heaven

First Aired: January 29, 1990

Director Jon Else's study of the impact of humans on California's Yosemite Valley. Robert Redford narrates from an account by Lafayette Bunnell, one of the first white men to see the valley in 1851. Also: a talk with naturalist Carl Sharsmith; footage of wildlife.

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Robert Redford

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Premiered: October 4, 1988
Rating: TV-PG
Premise: This much-honored PBS documentary series explores American history, one topic or person at a time. Its Peabody Award winners include profiles of FDR and Malcolm X, and such diverse topics as Nixon's 1972 trip to China, the controversy surrounding `Citizen… (more)

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