Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota features 60-foot faces of four United States presidents, carved into granite between 1927 and 1941 by Gutzon Borglum and about 400 workers. Some 450,000 short tons of rock were removed, and the project ran out of money before it was finished.

This documentary covers the Lakota Six Grandfathers, the plan to draw tourists, the dynamite and honeycombing, the faces one by one, the unfinished Hall of Records and the ongoing dispute over the Black Hills.

Chapters
0:00 A Face Blasted Away
0:55 The Six Grandfathers
2:10 A Monument for Tourists
3:53 Money and Dynamite
5:08 Four Faces in Granite
6:23 Left Unfinished
7:30 A Contested Shrine

Sources
Mount Rushmore -- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_R...

Archival images from Wikimedia Commons, used under their stated licenses:
RushmoreWithLeftJefferson.jpg -- Public domain, Unknown national park service employee before 1941.
Mount Rushmore2.jpg -- Public domain, Rise Studio, Rapid City, S. Dak. Copyright not renewed.
Mount Rushmore Closeup 2017.jpg -- CC BY 4.0, Winkelvi
Six Grandfathers.jpg -- Public domain, National Park Service
Black Hills, South Dakota 2014 17.jpg -- CC BY-SA 2.0, Murray Foubister
Mount Rushmore distant view.jpg -- CC BY-SA 4.0, Grahampurse
Mt.Rushmore Inspiration (and marker).jpg -- CC BY 4.0, BakedintheHole
Chicago Tribune Sun Nov 28 1926 page 123.jpg -- Public domain, Chicago Tribune
Mt Rushmore from US16A.jpg -- CC BY 2.5, Kimon Berlin, user:Gribeco
Mount Rushmore - panoramio.jpg -- CC BY-SA 3.0, Idawriter
1980 Mt Rushmore.jpg -- CC BY-SA 4.0, Chris Light
The Top of Mt. Rushmore looking out.JPG -- CC BY-SA 3.0, Rachel.miller727
Gutzon Borglum's model of Mt. Rushmore memorial.jpg -- Public domain, Rise Studio
Mount Rushmore airmail 26c 1974 issue.JPG -- Public domain, U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Imaging by Gwillhick
Dean Franklin - 06.04.03 Mount Rushmore Monument (by-sa).jpg -- Public domain, Dean Franklin
Photo of a display in the Exhibit Hall with blacksmith equipment on the right, a piece of honeycombed granite in the center and (f50a806c-155d-4519-3e8c-b63c3fcd8ceb).jpg -- Public domain, NPS Photo
Washington on Mt Rushmore 9-2019.jpg -- CC BY-SA 4.0, AnnieTye
DSC 2263 Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.jpg -- CC BY-SA 4.0, Hasselblad500CM
Sculptors Studio Interior Mt Rushmore 2024.jpg -- CC BY 4.0, Larry D. Moore
Hall of Records - Behind Mt. Rushmore.JPG -- CC BY-SA 3.0, Rachel.miller727
20100324-F-LSC-140 (33845911384).jpg -- Public domain, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Brandon Mowinkel 2017-01-15 (Unsplash).jpg -- CC0, Brandon Mowinkel bmowinkel
Mount Rushmore South Dakota -2.jpg -- CC BY-SA 4.0, Shah Ronak S
Black-hills-after-rain.jpg - panoramio.jpg -- CC BY 3.0, Good Free Photos
Founding Fathers at Mt Rushmore.jpg -- CC BY-SA 4.0, Mikhanbd
Mountain goat at Mount Rushmore National Memorial with terrace in background.jpg -- CC BY-SA 4.0, Runner1928
'Scottish Ten' project (6447208273).jpg -- CC BY 2.0, Scottish Government
Framed Mt Rushmore.jpg -- CC BY-SA 4.0, Danimal22757

Script researched and written from the sources above; narration voiced with text-to-speech.

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