Yes, Inherit the Wind (1960) is based on the Scopes Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. A close adaptation of a popular Broadway play of the same name, the movie changes the characters’ names and alters some facts but is otherwise a fairly faithful recounting of the trial.
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