The Dinosaur Hunters

The Dinosaur Hunters2002

Directed by Andrew Piddington

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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Henry Ian Cusick - Gideon MantellPaul Brightwell - LeneyMichelle Bunyan - Caroline OwenAlan Cox - Richard OwenKristian Griffiths - Walter Mantell (Aged 14-18)Derek Jacobi - Narrator (voice)Rebecca McClay - Mary AnningRobert Morgan - Charles LyellMichael Pennington - William BucklandRachel Shelley - Mary Mantell
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