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The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)
Directed by Andrew Piddington
Drama, Documentary · 2h 02m
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".
Cast
Henry Ian Cusick
Gideon Mantell
Paul Brightwell
Leney
M
Michelle Bunyan
Caroline Owen
Alan Cox
Richard Owen
K
Kristian Griffiths
Walter Mantell (Aged 14-18)
Derek Jacobi
Narrator (voice)
R
Rebecca McClay
Mary Anning
Robert Morgan
Charles Lyell
Michael Pennington
William Buckland
Rachel Shelley
Mary Mantell
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Laurie Goode
Removal Man (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Andrew Piddington
- Producer
- Steven Clarke
Details
- Release date
- 2002-12-30
- Runtime
- 2h 02m
- Genres
- Drama, Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Granada Television, Granada Productions, Channel 4 Television, PBS