The Dinosaur Hunters

Name: The Dinosaur Hunters
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: 2002
Duration: 2 h 2 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Henry Ian Cusick, Paul Brightwell, Michelle Bunyan, Alan Cox, Kristian Griffiths

Movie 2002-12-30 2h 2m Drama Documentary

★ 6.5 / 10 · 2 votes

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".

Status

Released

Studios

Granada Television , Granada Productions , Channel 4 Television

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Director

Andrew Piddington

Cast