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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 grea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larson, Tom (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Nebraska Educational Television Network, WGBH Educational Foundation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), PBS Home Video
Other Authors: Lesiak, Christine (Screenwriter, Producer, Director), Mumgaard, Annie (Producer, Director), Hunt, Linda, 1945- (Narrator), Reed, Eloise (Commentator), Johnson, Phillip (Commentator), Larson, Edward (Commentator), Levine, Lawrence W. (Commentator), Strossen, Nadine (Commentator), Williams, John (Commentator), McKenzie, Jim (Commentator), Boyer, Paul S. (Commentator), Numbers, Ronald L. (Commentator), Tierney, Kevin (Commentator), Scott, Eugenie Carol, 1945- (Commentator), McKenzie, Ben (Commentator), Moore, Allen (Cinematographer)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:Closed-captioned.
Published: [Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation, [2006]
Subjects:
Scopes, John Thomas > Trials, litigation, etc.
Bryan, William Jennings, > 1860-1925.
Darrow, Clarence, > 1857-1938.
Evolution (Biology) > Study and teaching > Law and legislation > United States.
Evolution (Biology) > History > 20th century.
Evolution > History > 20th century.
Science > History > 20th century.
Bible and evolution.
Creationism.
Modernist-fundamentalist controversy.
Dayton (Tenn.)
Scopes, John Thomas.
Evolution.
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) > Study and teaching > Law and legislation.
Science.
Tennessee > Dayton.
United States.
1900-1999
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.

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