The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

The Scopes Trial, over the right to teach evolution in public schools, reaffirmed the importance of intellectual freedom as codified in the Bill of Rights. The trial, in a small-town Tennessee courtroom in 1925, set the stage for ongoing national debates over the separation of Church and State in a democratic society, debates that continue to this day. A BBC co-production. Starring Mike Farrell, Edward Asner, and Sharon Gless.