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 SWAMP” on 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
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About PBS Distribution
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content around the world, reaching audiences through multiple platforms and
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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.
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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