The Dinosaur Hunters

(2002)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Drama, Documentary

Year: 2002

Runtime: 122 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Andrew Piddington

Cast: Генри Йен Кьюсик, Paul Brightwell, Michelle Bunyan, Alan Cox, Kristian Griffiths, Дерек Якоби, Rebecca McClay, Роберт Морган, Майкл Пеннингтон, Рэйчел Шелли

Plot

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".