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American Experience: Dinosaur Wars

American Experience (2011)

Documentary | United States

Director: David Grubin, Stephen Ives

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SEASON: 23

EPISODE: 5 - Dinosaur Wars

SYNOPSIS

From PBS and American Experience - In the summer of 1868, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh boarded a Union Pacific train for a sightseeing excursion through the heart of the newly opened American West. While most passengers simply saw magnificent landscapes, Marsh soon realized he was traveling through the greatest dinosaur burial ground of all time.

Actors

Voice: Callie Thorne, Jefferson Mays, Nancy Groce, Ron Bobb Semple, Peter Hermann, Jay Gregory, Ping Wu

Writer: David Grubin, Mark Zwonitzer

Narrator: Will Lyman, Philip Bosco

RUNTIME: 55 min

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