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1. Walking with Monsters (2005)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
The final installment in the "Walking with" series is a 90-minute documentary about the evolution of life before the dinosaurs.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Edward Gero
Votes: 2,414
2. Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy (2003)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, Animation, Adventure
Adventurous zoologist Nigel Marven embarks on an underwater expedition through time to explore the seven deadliest seas in Earth's history, coming face to face with strange and dangerous prehistoric sea monsters.
Stars: Nigel Marven, Christopher Cook, Karen Hayley, Michael Davis
Votes: 1,358
3. Walking with Prehistoric Beasts (2001)
Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Documentary
Using the latest digital technology, the era between the dinosaurs and man is superbly recreated by the BBC and Discovery Channel in another winning production from the coalition.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing, Larry Agenbroad, Frank Fish
Votes: 3,279
4. Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
TV-14 | 30 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.
Stars: Nikolay Drozdov, Kenneth Branagh, Avery Brooks, Craig Sechler
Votes: 6,886
5. Planet Dinosaur (2011)
180 min | Documentary, Animation, Action
Based on the latest paleontological discoveries from all continents, veteran actor John Hurt narrates the gory, bleak stories of the brutal relationship between the ancient apex predators and their gigantic herbivorous prey.
Star: John Hurt
Votes: 1,751
6. Prehistoric Park (2006)
60 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Nigel Marven travels back in time to rescue exotic creatures on the brink of extinction. CGI is used to create animals no longer seen on earth, from woolly mammoths, and T Rex, to dinosaur-eating crocodiles.
Stars: Rod Arthur, Suzanne McNabb, Nigel Marven, David Jason
Votes: 1,777
7. Dinosaur Planet (2003– )
Not Rated | 192 min | Documentary, Animation, Family
A four-episode animated series charting the adventures of four dinosaurs - each on a different continent in the prehistoric world: a lone female Velociraptor in Asia; a young male ... See full summary »
Stars: Christian Slater, Scott Sampson, Beau van Erven Dorens, Lutz Riedel
Votes: 567
8. When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001 TV Movie)
Unrated | 91 min | Animation, Documentary
The life of American dinosaurs is seen in amazing detail. The Feathered Dromeosaurs (Raptors) debut on this film along with the bizarre Therizinosaur. Each story is compelling and ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre de Lespinois | Stars: John Goodman, Karen Chin, Philip Currie, Jim Kirkland
Votes: 558
9. Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special (2000)
29 min | Documentary, Animation, Adventure
The first half of this special is a recreation of Al's life, from birth through his death in adolescence.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Avery Brooks
Votes: 1,663
10. Chased by Dinosaurs (2002–2003)
29 min | Documentary, Animation, History
This two-part series, a sequel to Walking with Dinosaurs featured Nigel and his "team of fellow explorers" encountering prehistoric life over a large range of time, and seeing creatures not featured in the original series.
Star: Nigel Marven
Votes: 878
11. First Life (2010)
59 min | Documentary
David Attenborough goes back in time to investigate the origins of life.
Stars: David Attenborough, Justin Marshall, Jean-Bernard Caron, Mary Droser
Votes: 1,767
12. Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World (2010)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short, History
The T-Rex of the Seas come alive.
Directors: Ronan Chapalain, Pascal Vuong | Stars: Guillaume Denaiffe, Norbert Ferrer, Chloe Hollings, Richard Rider
Votes: 452 | Gross: $6.60M
13. Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough (2011 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 40 min | Documentary
Famous naturalist David Attenborough explains the rise and fall of pterosaurs, mistakenly known as flying dinosaurs. He also flies a glider to show how big the Quetzalcoatlus, at the time the largest known pterosaur species, really was.
Director: Matthew Dyas | Stars: David Attenborough, Douglas A. Lawson
Votes: 1,035 | Gross: $5.69M
14. Monsters We Met (2003– )
TV-PG | Documentary, Adventure, History
The first episode shows audiences the American Serengeti that was once North America, and the unearthing of a Clovis child who came from some of the earliest settlers of Montana. The people... See full summary »
Stars: Ian Holm, William Hootkins, Teo Ao Tahara-Reese, Toa Waaka
Votes: 87
15. Prehistoric Predators (2007– )
Documentary, Animation, History
Journey back to the wild Ice Age, and witness how some of the most lethal prehistoric predators lived and why they disappeared forever from the Earth.
Stars: Robert Leigh, Marcos Akiaten, Chip Bolcik, Roger Tilling
Votes: 137
16. Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (2007)
Unrated | 40 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Brings to life some of the most bizarre, ferocious and fascinating creatures to ever inhabit the ocean. Combines animation with recreations in a prehistoric adventure. A journey to the ... See full summary »
Director: Sean MacLeod Phillips | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Jennifer Aguilar, Michael Ashcraft, Paul W. Burmaster
Votes: 1,069 | Gross: $23.55M
17. Monsters Resurrected (2009– )
Documentary
Long-extinct giant beasts and the strange world they once inhabited areresurrected through fossil evidence and other scientific data in this Discovery Channel program that reveals how these creatures once lived and flourished.
Stars: J.V. Martin, Thomas Holtz, Andrea Leanza, Lawrence Witmer
Votes: 107
18. When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs (2009 TV Movie)
Documentary
Paul Sereno visited the Sahara Desert looking for dinosaur fossils. But the Sahara was not always desert. Instead Paul found not one, but several species of gigantic crocodiles from the ... See full summary »
Director: Jenny Kubo | Stars: Salvatore Vecchio, Adam Britton, Erin Fitzgerald, Tyler Keillor
Votes: 22
19. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Documentary, Action, Adventure
Jurassic Fight Club depicts how prehistoric beasts hunted their prey, dissecting these battles and uncovering a predatory world far more calculated and complex than originally thought.
Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Thomas Holtz, Lawrence Witmer
Votes: 476
20. Animal Armageddon (2009– )
45 min | Documentary, History
This documentary series explores the causes behind six major extinction events in Earth's history. It also speculates on the next such event.
Stars: Peter Ward, Michael Carroll, Craig Chesner, Mathew Wedel
Votes: 215
21. March of the Dinosaurs (2011 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary, Animation, Drama
Set 70 million years ago in the Cretaceous period in North America, this animated documentation/drama follows the journey of a young Edmontosaurus named Scar and his herd as they migrate ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Thompson | Stars: Stephen Fry, Simon Kerr
Votes: 582
22. Titanoboa: Monster Snake (2012 TV Movie)
TV-G | 93 min | Documentary
Meet Titanoboa: She's longer than a bus, eats crocodiles for breakfast and makes the anaconda look like a garter snake.
Director: Martin Kemp
Votes: 317
23. Dinosaur Revolution (2011)
TV-PG | 176 min | Documentary
A documentary series following various prehistoric creatures, depicting their way of lives as well as their lust for survival.
Stars: Rick Robles, Thomas Holtz, Scott Hartman, Scott Sampson
Votes: 314
24. Ice Age Giants (2013)
59 min | Documentary
Professor Alice Roberts journeys 40,000 years back in time on the trail of the great beasts of the ice age. This was the last time that giants like mammoths, woolly rhinos and sabre-toothed... See full summary »
Stars: Alice Roberts, Dominic Frisby, Alun Hubbard, Grigoriev Semyon Egorovich
Votes: 230
25. David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive (2014 TV Movie)
64 min | Documentary, Animation
This documentary narrated by David Attenborough was filmed at the Natural History Museum, London, and uses state of the art CGI imagery to bring to life several extinct animals in the ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel M. Smith | Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 912
26. Death of the Megabeasts (2008 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary, Animation
A team of scientific detectives from around the world attempt to crack one of science's most enduring mysteries - what killed Australia's megafauna?
Director: Franco di Chiera | Stars: Craig Sechler, Stephen Wroe, Gavin Prideaux, Judith Field
Votes: 56
27. A New Prehistory (2016)
156 min | Documentary
Where do insects, birds, and mammals come from? Thanks to new technologies and recent discoveries, scientists can now recreate the missing branches of the tree of life.
Stars: André Nel, Sébastien Steyer, Michael Engels, Jacques Gamblin
Votes: 51
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