American Experience: Dinosaur Wars

It will only play on multi zone blue ray disk players. it is no good for me.

."Dinosaur Wars" is a nicely done PBS Special focusing on the rivalry between Victorian-era paleontologists Othniel Charles Marsh of Yale and Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia. As pioneers in the field of digging for dinosaurs, their fierce competition ended in both triumph and tragedy. The hour-long production includes on-location footage, historic documents, old photos, and a suitably knowledgeable smattering of modern paleontologists and scholars.This is not a movie for little kids, but can be a useful teaching tool for college and university students. I plan to show this to my HIS 112 students when we talk about Western Expansion and the Gilded Age. It is sure to be a hit.The appropriate companion book is Url Lanham's "Bone Hunters" which goes into greater detail about the early paleontological community than does the film.Kim BurdickStanton, Delaware

Great Present for Son for his Library. Son is a Geologist/Paleontologists. It was high on his list.

Great film. Amazing scenario. It was really nice to watch.

Great documentary on the early years of the North American dinosaur fossil discoveries by E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh.

It's the sad but true story over two men obsessed with being the greatest dinosaur hunter in the US.If this were about gold or diamonds, it might be understandable - yet, it's about fossils.Well worth watching.

Interesting! That's all! Not enough info to build a war! Impoverished men beget nothing for humanity! Their tombstones should be empty!

I love this movie.