The Dinosaur Hunters

The Dinosaur Hunters

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 30, 2002

Runtime

2h 2m

Genres

Drama, Documentary

User Score

50%

Original Title

The Dinosaur Hunters

Production Companies

Granada Television, Granada Productions, Channel 4 Television, PBS

Director

Andrew Piddington

Description

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".