[drlevy88]

Bowling For Columbine has much more "taken verbatim" material than this. Yet it is clearly a mockumentary.

[gcruse]

The Monkey Trial lives on. You'd think people would have learned enough in the last eighty years of scientific advance to provoke a different outcome. Kansas proves it ain't necessarily so. Ignorance can be fixed, but superstition goes clear to the soul.

[Greybird]

"Inherit the Wind" never pretended to be a documentary. It takes the Scopes trial as a starting point for a fictional and more dramatic -- though not much more! -- treatment than real life provided.

Yet to suggest, as was done in this thread, that it misrepresents the essence of the controversy involved, or the scientific and religious matters bearing on the plot, is entirely specious.