Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility amidst one of the largest, tallest, and most unnatural places on earth. This film examines the creation of America's great city parks in the late 1800s through the enigmatic eyes of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary urban planner and landscape architect. In his own words, Olmsted and America's Urban Parks weaves together Olmsted's engaging and poignant personal story with those of the lasting masterpieces he left for us today, featuring Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline as the voice of Frederick Law Olmsted.
Garden designer Lynden B. Miller explores the life and career of Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959), ...
A nature lover's paradise lays in wait for a mother and daughter enjoying a day's excursion on the N...
Scenes of people in motion. Some are working, others spend their leisure time. The sound of airplane...
To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to prese...
André Le Notre is certainly the most famous French gardener. He was also a designer, architect, engi...
From the open air theater in the Bois de Boulogne the sex workers Heden, Claudia and Samantha, tell ...
Bournemouth offers a variety of sports, pastimes, steamer trips, and fine dining for holidaymakers, ...
Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens, cranes,...
Documentary about the social microcosm of Hasenheide, a 50 hectar green area in Berlin, located betw...
A group of children are encouraged to play in a park by two men. Some play a skipping game. One of t...
Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 8...
The British invented them for the world, and they have been described as 'the lungs of the city - hi...
Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled t...
This short documentary profiles the idyllic landscapes of Parc Lafontaine. Set to an original song, ...