Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial is an award-winning NOVA documentary about the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, focusing on whether intelligent design can be considered a science and taught in science school classrooms on professor. It aired on PBS in November 2007 and includes interviews with judges, witnesses and attorneys, as well as re-enactments (no cameras allowed in the courtroom).
The documentary was praised by Nature and described as accurate by the National Center for Science Education. Variety magazine also gave the documentary a positive review, calling it one of the most important TV shows of the year and “should be shown not only in every American high school, but in houses of worship.”
Contrary to the positive reception the film received, creationists and advocates of intelligent design criticized the documentary. The Discovery Institute created a website criticizing the show. The answer in Genesis claims that the evidence for evolution presented by scientists on Judgment Day is wrong. The Creation Institute (ICR) also claimed that the film was uneven. WKNO-TV, the local PBS affiliate based in Memphis, decided not to air the documentary due to the “controversial nature” of the subject, but has since committed to airing it in 2008.
