The Dinosaur Hunters
6.5
2 votes
December 30, 2002
2h 2m
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".
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Cast
Henry Ian Cusick
Gideon Mantell
Paul Brightwell
LeneyMichelle Bunyan
Caroline Owen
Alan Cox
Richard OwenKristian Griffiths
Walter Mantell (Aged 14-18)
Derek Jacobi
Narrator (voice)Rebecca McClay
Mary Anning
Robert Morgan
Charles Lyell
Michael Pennington
William Buckland
Rachel Shelley
Mary MantellLaurie Goode
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