Monkey trial
(DVD) 

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Editor, Alexandru Moscu ; director of photography, Allen Moore ; original music, Tom Larson.

Narrator, Linda Hunt; commentators, Eloise Reed, Phillip Johnson, Edward Larson, Lawrence Levine, Nadine Strossen, John Williams, Jim McKenzie, Paul Boyer, Ronald Numbers, Kevin Tierney, Eugenie Scott, Ben McKenzie.

Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series American experience in 2002.

In 1925, a biology teacher named John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee state law. His trial became an epic event of the 20th century, a debate over free speech that spiraled into an all-out duel between science and religion. Featuring two of the century's greatest orators, attorneys Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, the Scopes trial was America's first major media event, with hundreds of reporters and live nationwide radio coverage dispersing the sensational news. Outside the courthouse, a circus atmosphere prevailed as a chimpanzee in a suit and hat vied with fire-and-brimstone preachers for the crowd's attention. This film explores the dramatic moment when a new fault line opened in society as scientific discoveries began to challenge the literal truth of the Bible. Often humorous and at times frightening, the story of two value systems colliding resonates today.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.