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The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)
Directed by Andrew Piddington
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”.
Length 122 minutes
Actors
Henry Ian Cusick | Paul Brightwell | Michelle Bunyan | Alan Cox | Kristian Griffiths | Derek Jacobi | Rebecca McClay | Robert Morgan | Michael Pennington | Rachel Shelley | Laurie Goode