2002
5.0 (1 votes)
2h 2m
Genres
Drama
Documentary
Production Companies
Granada Television
Granada Productions
Channel 4 Television
PBS
Granada Productions
Channel 4 Television
PBS
The Dinosaur Hunters
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".
Key Crew
Director: Andrew Piddington
Producer: Steven Clarke
