Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (2007)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers the 2005 court case Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. It looks at whether intelligent design counts as science and can be taught in public school science classes. The film includes interviews, court transcript reenactments, and background on the legal and scientific arguments.

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What happens

Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial is a documentary on the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District—which concentrated on the question of whether or not intelligent design could be viewed as science and taught in school science class. It first aired on PBS stations nationwide, on November 13, 2007, with many reruns, and features interviews with the judge, witnesses, and lawyers as well as re-enacted scenes using the official transcript of the trial. Judgment Day was produced by WGBH's NOVA and Vulcan Productions in association with the Big Table Film Company. The senior executive producer was Paula S. Apsell, the executive producer was Richard Hutton, and the producers were Joseph McMaster, Gary Johnstone, and Vanessa Tovell. The senior producer was Susanne Simpson. Johnstone and McMaster served as directors, and McMaster was the writer. In April 2008 the documentary won a Peabody Award. It won the 2008 Science Journalism Award presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to honor excellence in science reporting. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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