National Geographic: Darwin's Darkest Hour

Starring: Henry Ian Cusick and Frances O'Connor

Starring Henry Ian Cusick ("Lost") and Frances O'Connor ("Mansfield Park") Darwin's Darkest Hour depicts the professional and personal trauma Charles Darwin endured the year before the publication of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 727994753797
• Release Date: November 2009
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Nat'l Geographic Vid
• Starring: Henry Ian Cusick, Frances O'Connor
• Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 0.7" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

National Geographic Television’s first scripted film

I only saw the Blu-ray disk and cannot compare it to the standard DVD or TV. Naturally, we get great visuals and sound. However, visuals and sound do not make this story or the acting. Henry Ian Cusick as Charles Darwin, and Frances O’Connor as Emma Darwin. This is a skillfully integrated drama about family and the personal life of Charles, and that is interwoven with fragments of his work. This presentation is very slow-paced with low-key background music. I do not know if this is for drama's sake or to give you time to reflect. It starts out with Alfred Wallace, a rival, trumping Charles on his theory of natural selection. The rest of the presentation is a series of flashbacks and unresolved scenes. Yet after a while, you forget that this is a stilted bunch of scenes and see a direction. “Honest and conscientious doubts could never be a sin”, Emma Darwin. Check out “Darwin-online(dot)org(dot)uk” on the net