Wednesday, January 23, 2019

THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES: WASTELAND OR ESSENTIAL WETLAND? THE HISTORIC STORY OF SELLING OR SAVING IT IN “AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE SWAMP”

THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES:
WASTELAND OR ESSENTIAL WETLAND?
THE HISTORIC STORY OF SELLING OR SAVING IT IN “AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE SWAMP”

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Available on DVD and Digital February 12

Arlington, VA – January xx, 2019 – PBS Distribution announces the DVD and digital release of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE SWAMPon February 12, 2019. Man has been attempting to conquer the Florida Everglades since the 1800’s. “THE SWAMP,” explores natures’ most mysterious and unique ecosystems told through the eccentric lives of hucksters, politicians, and activists.
The program is based, in part, on the book “The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise,” by Michael Grunwald. “THE SWAMP,” introduces us to the first person who attempted to drain the Everglades in 1881, Philadelphia industrialist Hamilton Disston. He was one of the first to see the potential of turning the wetland into a profitable enterprise. By the 1920’s, Florida experienced a population and real estate boom as new settlers cleared away native vegetation to plant crops like celery, lettuce, tomatoes and strawberries. But there were some, like naturalist Charles Torrey Simpson, who warned against spoiling the area’s beauty and biodiversity. Torrey-Simpson was right. After altering the Everglades, the area was hit with unintended deadly consequences, from catastrophic floods to brutal droughts. Still, even as the alterations wreaked havoc on the environment, efforts continued to conquer the Everglades.
In 1925, landscape architect Ernest Coe moved to Miami and fell in love with the Everglades and became a champion to preserve it. He created a national park which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved by authorizing the creation of Everglades National Park in 1934. One of Coe’s supporters, writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas from the Miami Herald, wrote a book in 1946 that forever redefined the region as essential not only to wildlife but to people.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE SWAMP” will be available on DVD (SRP $24.99) and digital February 12, 2019. The program has a run time of 120 minutes.

Other titles available from PBS Distribution include: “EARTH’S NATURAL WONDERS,” “GREAT PLAINS: AMERICA’S LINGERING WILD,” and “THE BEST OF BIG BLUE LIVE”




About AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
For 30 years, American Experience has been television’s most-watched history series. Hailed as “peerless” (The Wall Street Journal), “the most consistently enriching program on television” (Chicago Tribune) and “a beacon of intelligence and purpose” (Houston Chronicle), the series brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America’s past and present. American Experience documentaries have been honored with every major broadcast award, including 30 Emmy Awards, four duPont-Columbia Awards and 17 George Foster Peabody Awards; the series received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 2015 for Last Days in Vietnam. American Experience also creates original digital content that uses new forms of storytelling to connect our collective past with the present. Visit pbs.org/americanexperience and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube to learn more. 

About PBS Distribution
PBS Distribution is a leading distributor of public media content around the world, reaching audiences through multiple platforms and formats including direct-to-consumer subscription video-on-demand (DTC-SVOD), transactional video-on-demand (TVOD), subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) licensing, and physical products on DVD and Blu-ray.  In addition, the company operates two Prime Video channels - PBS MASTERPIECE and PBS KIDS, as well as a theatrical releasing division, and educational, non-theatrical, inflight and international licensing businesses.    

PBS Distribution offers consumers and educators over 4,000 programming hours of the highest quality factual, scripted and children’s programming, including films from producer Ken Burns, hit dramas from MASTERPIECE, entertaining and educational children’s series and award-winning documentaries from NOVA, FRONTLINE, AMERICAN MASTERS, NATURE, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and many independent producers. For over 20 years, the company has extended the reach of programming beyond broadcast while generating revenue for the public television system, stations and producers.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE SWAMP
Street Date: February 12, 2019
Genre: Arts: History
Run Time: Approximately 120 minutes on 1 disc
SRP: DVD, $24.99
Format: DVD 

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