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An incredible cinematic adventure through the awe-inspiring national parks and monuments of America’s Southwest. Filmed in high definition, this fully narrated production takes you from the edge of the red rock canyons to the rivers below, past hoodoos and towering arches. Follow in the footsteps of ancient cultures and early explorers, learn the geologic secrets that formed this amazing landscape. Come along on the ultimate journey through America’s great Southwest.

The book is a substantially revised and expanded overview of the legacy of prehistoric cultures of the American Southwest, as preserved and interpreted by the National Park Service in more than 37 sites. The DVD explores the monumental architecture and finely crafted arts created by the ancestral culture of the Southwest while telling how explorers, ranchers, and scholars pieced together the history of these ancient Indians. The DVD features menu-based chapter selections, English language subtitle option, and a transcript of the narration in a DVD-ROM content area for computer users.

In this fully-narrated video tour you'll embark on a 1,400 mile tour of the Grand Circle, a spectacular region of the southwest encompassing parts of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.  The Grand Circle route connects eight national parks - Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Arches and Mesa Verde - with numerous national monuments, recreation areas, state parks, historic sites and attractions.  From deep red-rock canyons to ancient Indian ruins, from majestic mountains to exciting river trips, the Grand Circle features the very best of the American Southwest.

Running time: 100 min.

DVD extras:
Grand Circle Wildlife
Condors in the Canyon
iPod & iPhone feature
Grand Circle Music video
Historical film - 1933 Grand Circle Expedition
Languages: English narration, German and French subtitles

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Mesa Verde National Park is rich in treasures from the past.  The mesa top villages and cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde provide a wealth of knowledge about the ancient people who lived here.  Their story, however, did not end when they left this area.  Their descendants are the Pueblo Indians who live in the southwest today.  Narrator Raoul Trujillo, a Pueblo Indian from New Mexico, speaks eloquently for his people and presents the puebloan view of their ancestral home in Mesa Verde National Park.  60 minute run time.

Greetings from Mesa Verde National Park!  A mailable postcard with a 20-minute DVD film featuring Mesa Verde National Park, where nearly 5,000 archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, which were home to Ancestral Puebloans from about A.D. 550 to 1300, are protected. This 20-minute DVD features beautiful music accompanying stunning imagery of Mesa Verde National Park. Filmed on location in Colorado.

Let Those Who Came Before transport you to some of the most spectacular archeological sites in the American Southwest, where the compelling cultural legacy pre-Columbian Puebloan peoples has been unearthed and preserved. These Puebloan ancestors forged complex agricultural societies that endured for centuries in a challenging, arid environment. They had no written records, but their achievements are evident in the remarkable buildings, artifacts, and irrigation systems they left behind. By merging the archaeological record with the oral traditions of contemporary puebloan peoples, Those Who Came Before illustrates the what life was like six centuries ago in the southwest. Filmed on location at the national park sites throughout the Southwest, including Aztec Ruins, Bandelier, Casa Grand Ruins, Canyon de Chelly, Chaco Culture, Gila Cliff Dwellings, Mesa Verde, Montezuma Castle, Navajo, Pecos, Petrified Forest, and Tuzigoot. Copyright by the Western National Parks Association.

Visit fifty-five of America's national parks and see why each is treasured as an irreplaceable part of our national legacy. From Alaska and Hawaii to Florida and Maine, this unique collection celebrates the protected wilderness areas and the amazing recreational opportunities offered by our national parks. No two vistas are alike in this stunning program, but every park has one thing in common, each of them is a living symbol of the untamed American spirit.

Disc 1 - American Samoa; Arches; Biscayne; Bryce Canyon; Canyonlands; Carlsbad Caverns; Crater Lake; Denali; Everglades; Glacier; Glacier Bay; Grand Canyon; Grand Tetons; Great Basin; Great Smoky Mountains; Haleakala; Hawaii Volcanoes; Lake Clark; Mount Rainier; North Cascades; Olympic; Redwood; Rocky Mountains; Saguaro; Virgin Islands; Yellowstone; Yosemite; Zion Canyon.

Disc 2 - Acadia; Badlands; Big Bend; Black Canyon/Gunnison; Capitol Reef; Channel Islands; Death Valley; Dry Tortugas; Gates of the Artic; Guadalupe Mountains; Hot Springs; Isle Royale; Joshua Tree; Katmai; Kenai Fjords; King's Canyon; Kobuk Valley; Lassen Volcanic; Mammoth Cave; Mesa Verde; Petrified Forest; Sequoia; Shenandoah; Theodore Roosevelt; Voyageurs; Wind Cave; Wrangell-St. Elias.

Extra Features:

• Symphony to America's National Parks - This extra feature matches some of the world's greatest music with a montage of America's greatest scenery. The music of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Tchaikovsky accompanies magnificent footage of America's national parks.
• Our Fragile Heritage - This extra feature illustrates the beauty of nature while addressing the need to conserve our national parks. Handy tips on what visitors can do to help are included.

Sheltered form the centuries, the Cliff Dwellings cling to sandstone ledges... as if clinging to another time. The stone villages of Mesa Verde serve as our best window into the world of the ancient Puebloans. What happened here? Discover the fascinating story of Ancient America and the pueblo builders who made this remote, high plateau their home so long ago. Mesa Verde is not only one of America's most important parks preserving the prehistoric past, it is a United Nations World Heritage Site; a world park. It is a place that transcends international boundaries... as well as time. Crafted in stoned and hidden by protecting cliffs is a vital link in the story of human striving and accomplishment: a Legacy of Stone and Spirit.  This is the orientation film that is played in the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum in Mesa Verde National Park.  25 minutes long.

A fascinating and invaluable tool in building fluency and communication skills. The pronunciation guide and accompanying audio CD will help you develop reading, writing and pronunciation skills