Presents the film version and Cliff's Notes for Lawrence and Lee's play "Inherit the Wind," in which a Tennessee high school educator is jailed for teaching evolution, bringing legal legends Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryant to wrangle over the merits of the case in a drama based on the real Scopes Trial.
Lawyers face off in 1925 Dayton, Tennessee in the Scopes Monkey Trial, which determined the legality of teaching evolution versus creation in the classroom.
Dramatizes the events of the so-called Monkey Trial of 1925, when the state of Tennessee filed suit against high school biology teacher John Scopes for illegally teaching the theory of evolution.
A play loosely based on the events which took place in Dayton, Tennessee during the Scopes Trial in July of 1925. Called the trial of the century, the main focus is on the two lawyers, Bryan and Darrow.