Often unheralded, lighthouses perform vital tasks across the shores of the globe, and have often been used to save lives threatened by perilous waters. Notorious for providing subject matter to writers with overactive imaginations, the lighthouse is often portrayed in fiction as a haunted, ghost-riddled place which emits a foreboding presence. LIGHTHOUSES OF AMERICA takes a different tact, by simply presenting some of the best coastal lighthouses America has to offer. Beautifully filmed, these huge structures are lovingly reproduced on celluloid, which should delight costal historians everywhere.