Niagara Falls is more than the celebration of a natural wonder. It's a study of human achievement and folly on an epic scale, a tale of affable lunacy, high drama, danger and desire. The Falls were the nation’s first great symbol, an emblem for the vast untamed continent with its beauty and its limitless resources. What happened to that beauty, and those resources, is the story-line of the film.

This WNED PBS production premiered in September 2006.

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Funding provided by Niagara Parks Commission in Canada, Niagara Tourism and Convention Corporation, Ciminelli Real Estate Corporation and PBS.

0:00 Introduction
4:03 Ruedi Hafen Niagara Helicopters
11:56 Tom Yots Town Historian Niagara Falls, New York
14:47 Lena Rickard Tuscarora Nation
16:49 Shane Peacock Author
18:58 Jay Cochrane High Wire
23:51 John Williams Captain Maid of the Mist
27:27 Paul Gromosiak Niagara Falls Historian
27:56 Helena Harrington Innkeeper
30:39 Tom Yots Town Historian Niagara Falls New York
36:46 Eli Rickard Tuscarora Nation
42:47 Peter Gordon Lights Operator
48:58 Elizabeth McKinsey Historian