Dinosaur 13
Dinosaur 13 is a 2014 American documentary film directed and produced by Todd Douglas Miller. The film premiered in competition category of U.S. Documentary Competition program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on
After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, CNN Films and Lionsgate acquired distribution rights of the film.The film depicts the event of when American paleontologist Pete Larson and his team discovered the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found, while digging in the badlands of South Dakota. However the skeleton was seized from Larson by the federal government, followed by a ten-year long battle with the FBI, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Maurice Williams, the landowner on whose property the bones were discovered. Pete Larson also spent 18 months in prison.The film received positive response from critics. Dennis Harvey in his review for Variety said that "Todd Douglas Miller's engrossing documentary covers the triumphant discovery - and government seizure - of the world's largest, most complete T-Rex skeleton." Duane Byrge of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film positive review and said that "Involving story of scientific discovery and petty politics."[8] Eric Kohn from Indiewire in his review said that "A subset of the recent scientific-documentary-as-thriller tradition epitomized by The Cove and Blackfish, Todd Douglas Miller's Dinosaur 13 is both awe-inspiring and tragic.
August 15, 2014