The film depicts the event of 1990, when American paleontologist Pete Larson and his team discovered the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found (nicknamed 'Sue') while digging in the badlands of South Dakota. But during a ten-year battle with the U.S. government, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists, they found themselves not only fighting to keep their dinosaur but fighting for their freedom as well.
7 January 1957, Arlington, Virginia, USA
6 February 1940, Webster, South Dakota, USA
11 March 1934, El Paso, Texas, USA
April 15, 1957 in Dubuque, Iowa, USA
19 August 1946, Hope, Arkansas, USA
January 08, 2015
Any documentary can be slanted to a particular point of view, but most filmmakers try to be a bit more subtle. Cry me a river, "Dinosaur 13."August 15, 2014
"Dinosaur 13" is "Kramer vs. Kramer" for paleontologists ...August 15, 2014
These events would have been better handled in a single installment of Dateline.August 18, 2014
In his eagerness to create a David-and-Goliath story, and with his distractingly pro-BHI bias, Mr. Miller fails to ask a lot of questions.August 14, 2014
"Dinosaur 13" may not be the best documentary, but as a scientific soap opera, it's a doozy.August 23, 2014
After a promising half-hour or so, "Dinosaur 13" becomes less convincing and less involving, particularly as the real-life narrative peaks halfway through.August 29, 2014
We see much of both sides in Dinosaur 13.August 15, 2014
The fate of some very old bones may not sound like compelling cinema, but when they compose the 65-million-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was 41 feet long and 18 feet high back in the day, all bets are off.March 26, 2016
Riveting entertainment, Dinosaur 13 is one of those happy accidents of documentary filmmaking.