As Elizabeth Phillipson-Weiner watched footage of the pebble beaches and lush pine trees, the music started playing in her head. Phillipson-Weiner, a composer born and raised in Lower Merion who goes ...

When documentary filmmaker Dayton Duncan began exploring the role national parks play in shaping America's identity, he couldn't ignore their profound influence on his own life. Recalling a trip he ...

Celebrate the power of America’s parks. Out There: A National Parks Story comes to Tucson Oct 23 at the Fox A one-night-only cinematic journey with live music, filmmaker Q&A, and a celebration of ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns' new PBS documentary series starts in 19th century America. The natural wonder of Niagara Falls was so commercialized and overdeveloped that the great French traveler and writer ...

Their creation, Ken Burns relates in his latest blockbuster documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," was a triumph of democracy. It secured forever and for everyone some of the ...

Summer is the height of the visitor season for the National Park Service. Last year, nearly 332 million people visited NPS sites, a record that is likely to be broken this year. That surge in visitors ...