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The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)

The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)

Drama Documentary
Release Date: 2002, December 30
Directors: Andrew Piddington
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Granada Television, Granada Productions, Channel 4 Television, PBS
Cast: Michael Pennington, Robert Morgan, Derek Jacobi, Alan Cox, Paul Brightwell, Henry Ian Cusick, Rachel Shelley, Laurie Goode, Kristian Griffiths, Michelle Bunyan, Rebecca McClay

Overview:

One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific establishment to accept Britain had been inhabited by dinosaurs. As this dramatised documentary shows, Mantell had an uphill battle in a time when the biblical account of creation was considered literal truth and authorities such as the Reverend William Buckland were determined that science remain "the handmaid of religion".