This PBS series recounts both the engineering triumphs and the ecological disasters involved in the control of water and the transformation of nature. This first program chronicles the facts behind the fiction film " Chinatown " (AV # 60194 and # 87475); how William Mulholland brought the water of the Owens River across the Mojave Desert to Los Angeles. Produced, written and directed by Jon Else; based on the book by Marc Reisner. Narrated by Alfre Woodard.