American Highpoints Day Two Feature American Highpoints is a documentary chronicles the adventures of seasoned mountaineers, weekend hikers and members of the Highpointers Club, a group of nature lovers and hobbyists striving to reach the highest points in each state, including more than a dozen in Wilderness areas. A mother and daughter team on a highly challenging climb empowers women and youth to think of themselves as likely participants in outdoor recreational activities.

Gwich'in Women Speak Day One Documentary The 2010 Gwich’in gathering was held in Fort Yukon, Alaska. The theme was “Unity Through Our Cultural/Traditional Values For Our Sovereign Success.” In 1988, Gwich’in elders called a gathering to discuss the threat of oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The tradition was brought back for the first time in 100 years to unite the whole nation. The words from the elders were: “Do it in a good way and no compromise. Stay united.”

Yosemite Through the Eyes of a Buffalo Soldier Day One Feature The Buffalo Soldiers were the first official stewards and protectors of our public wild lands, who set up the techniques, instruments, and infrastructure of public wild land protection. The varied experience of the Buffalo Soldier helped to steer public and wild land stewardship, and set in place methods and outlooks used today.

Day One World Premiere The Wilderness Act was created in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, and at a time when commercial, industrial extraction of resources on a large scale went unchecked. The Act affected many landscapes, and protected some of the last relatively untouched wild places; but many citizen communities were left out of the planning and decision making process, especially native Americans, and other ethnic groups.

Day One Documentary The pioneers who worked for the passage of the Wilderness Act 50 years ago wanted to protect lands for all future generations. Now those future generations are taking up the torch. People of all backgrounds, whose help is vitally needed, are learning to protect and steward the remaining wild lands. Enthusiastic youths are seen leading the way here in Montana, on a horseback and camping stewardship adventure, with help fro the Back Country Horsemen, and the green agencies.

Day Two, a Journal Chugach Children's Forest participant, Reth, describes his experience on a habitat restoration kayaking expedition in Prince William Sound in the summer of 2013. Incredible scenery is the backdrop of this poetic description of an adventure in Reth's own voice.

Day One, first of a series In wild places there is incredible natural beauty and an opportunity for personal reflection, inspiration, and growth. Take a delightful immersive journey through America’s wild places, experiencing National Park Service Wilderness from a variety of perspectives ranging from ultra-marathoners running on the trails to musicians composing songs inspired by the natural landscape. Together, these short stories celebrate the range and richness of an American Wilderness.

The austere desert landscape of Death Valley, where the rainfall is less than three inches a year, lights up in one of the most extreme and beautiful environments in America. Sand, solitude, and sublimity.

Day Two Documentary William O. Douglas was a beacon for the preservation of wild places and individual freedom, by word and by example.  These were parallel rights to be defended without reservation. Douglas' role in shaping the modern environmental movement his rich career as a writer and his wilderness advocacy accelerated the timeline of the environmental movement. As a sitting Supreme Court Justice, no one in the nation brought such a high profile to these issues.

The Olympic Wilderness: If Wilderness Could Speak Day Two, America's Wilderness Series If the wilderness could speak, what would it say? At Olympic National Park the wilderness doesn’t just speak…it sings! Enjoy the symphony of nature in one of the most acoustically diverse wilderness areas of the country as we follow the wilderness cry the alpine regions of the Olympic Mountains, the canopies of the old growth forests and temperate rainforest, and the raging waters of the coast.

Day Two Special Feature When did camping make the transition from occupation to recreation? For Daniel Boone and the pioneers it was definitely an occupation. For Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn it was recreation, an escape from Aunt Polly and the pressures of city life. The transition continues, and camping has become a form of recreation for millions of people the world over. © 1972 by Gerry Division Outdoor Sports Industries, Inc.

North Cascades Wilderness: Experience the Awesome Day One, Journal, America's Wilderness series Join Masyih Ford on a dream-like, poetic wandering in this amazing mountain wilderness. North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area make up the Stephen Mather Wilderness—over 634,614 acres of dramatic, rugged habitat for wildlife--an awesome paradise for hikers, climbers, and mountaineers.

Day Two Feature and documentary The Meaning of Wild is a half hour documentary film that takes viewers on a journey through one of our nation’s wildest landscapes, the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska. The film follows wildlife cameraman Ben Hamilton as he travels by boat, plane, kayak and foot to capture and share the true value of Wilderness. Ben encounters bears, calving glaciers, ancient forests, and harsh seas, and meets meaningful characters along the way.

Success: An 85 mile‐long unsecured stretch of international border between the US and Canada cuts through nearly 1.7 million acres of wilderness managed by the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service in north central Washington state and, on the Canadian side by the Province of British Columbia (BC Parks). Three areas of wilderness stewardship involve the mutually beneficial partnership between the Forest Service, National Park Service, and CBP; fire management; and wildlife habitat.

Protect ourselves by protecting wilderness: THE WILDEST ACT explores some gorgeous already-protected wilderness areas: famous places within large parks, like Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the East Coast, and lesser-known places like the Ventana Wilderness near California's Big Sur. We also visit fascinating areas that still need protecting, like the Behind the Rocks wilderness in Utah, and stretches of Oregon's rambunctious Rogue River.

Smithsonian Special: The Wilderness Act and its impact since, with interviews. The film captures what drove us as a nation to create the Wilderness Act. Those motivations are partially rooted in the fight to protect, but also the wonderment of seeing and feeling these lands and realizing their priceless value to not only nature, but human nature. One of the contemporary themes addressed is wilderness as an antidote to our device-addicted culture.