Darwin's Darkest Hour

This film provides a glimpse into the life and times of Charles Darwin just before publishing Origin of the Species. His wife's intelligent, principled role, his children's' engagement in science and learning as well as tragic illness, the struggle with ethical questions related to attribution ("intellectual property rights" within the scientific world). It provides the basic reasoning & observations behind the theory and the fascinating context - especially recent discoveries about geological forces and time scale. A revolution in our understanding of the world all taking place in one short century. Pretty exciting! Filmed in beautiful Nova Scotia where I live (a pleasant surprise) - including local actors & sites. (Ironically the film tax credit that brought the filming here was drastically changed April 9 2015, 3 days before we watched the film, leaving the future of film-making in NS in doubt).