| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Monkey Trial. Prod. by Christine Lesiak. Nebraska ETV Network Production for American Experience, 2002. 90 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 800-344-3337; <shop@pbs.org>; <http://shop.pbs.org/education/> [Sept. 15, 2003])

Both Broadway and Hollywood have famously distorted the events surrounding the famed trial of John Scopes, the Tennessee schoolteacher who was arrested in 1925 and charged with violating a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. The play and film versions of Inherit the Wind made for gripping drama but poor history. (For instance, Broadway audiences were treated to the spectacle of the William Jennings Bryan character succumbing to a heart attack while delivering his summation in court.) The documentary film Monkey Trial, originally aired as part of the PBSAmerican Experience series, provides a far more reliable—and no less gripping—account of the Scopes trial and the broader social and cultural forces that shaped it.

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