Mount Rushmore
Season 14 Episode 4 | 55m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
The story behind the world's largest sculpture and the shrine of democracy.
An obsessed artist struggles against bankruptcy, public indifference, and a brutal terrain, to build the great American monument, Mount Rushmore. High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Together they constitute the world's largest piece of sculpture.
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Original funding for Mount Rushmore provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Liberty Mutual, the Scotts Company, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS stations.
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Mount Rushmore
Season 14 Episode 4 | 55m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
An obsessed artist struggles against bankruptcy, public indifference, and a brutal terrain, to build the great American monument, Mount Rushmore. High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Together they constitute the world's largest piece of sculpture.
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Clip: S14 Ep4 | 2m 22s | Borglum built a studio size model of Mt. Rushmore and then enlarged it to scale. (2m 22s)
Clip: S14 Ep4 | 46s | Gutzon Borglum and his team of workers were aware that there would be challenges to face. (46s)
Clip: S14 Ep4 | 11m 25s | The story behind the world's largest sculpture and the shrine of democracy. (11m 25s)
Preview: S14 Ep4 | 30s | The story behind the world's largest sculpture and the shrine of democracy. (30s)
Clip: S14 Ep4 | 1m 3s | Mount Rushmore is the biggest monument on the face of the earth. (1m 3s)
Clip: S14 Ep4 | 40s | Gutzon Borglum used a concoction of materials to fill in the cracks in Jefferson's head. (40s)
Clip: S14 Ep4 | 2m 41s | View video clips of Gutzon Borglum and the workers as they sculpt a national monument. (2m 41s)
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Original funding for Mount Rushmore provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Liberty Mutual, the Scotts Company, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS stations.