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- StarsDavid AttenboroughTravel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.
- StarsChristian SlaterScott SampsonBeau van Erven DorensA 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 Daspletosaurus in North America; a South American female Saltasaur; and a young adult Pyroraptor in Europe. Narrated by Christian Slater and hosted by paleontologist Scott Sampson.
- DirectorTodd Douglas MillerStarsStan AdelsteinLanice ArcherRobert BakkerA documentary about the discovery of the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found.
- StarsKenneth BranaghAvery BrooksThe first half of this special is a recreation of Al's life, from birth through his death in adolescence.
- DirectorPierre de LespinoisStarsJohn GoodmanKaren ChinPhilip CurrieThe 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 well-written. From a Coelophysis exploring the world around him to a teenage Tyrannosaurus learning from his mother how to hunt and even a love story between two Stegosaurus. This film also shows audiences real fossil finds and museum displays to show the researcher's work. This is educational, thrilling, and is a well-executed Discovery Channel response to BBC's ground-breaking "Walking with Dinosaurs" miniseries.
- DirectorDan LevittStarsJack HornerHarry PrichettScientists discuss the possibility of reverse-engineering the DNA of modern birds to recreate dinosaur species, instead of cloning fragments of dinosaur DNA extracted from amber and other ancient fossils.
- DirectorMatthew ThompsonStarsStephen FrySimon KerrSet 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 south for the winter. This film depicts recent findings about Dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurs with feathers.
- StarsJason HildebrandtRichard CoyleKen CarpenterDinosaurs were the ultimate prehistoric survival machines, ruling the earth for 120 Million years. Until now we've seen them as skeletons and robotic models. Dino Body takes a new look at dinosaurs -- from the inside out. Combining cinematic photo-real 3D graphics and leading-edge anatomy and paleontology, we peel back their skin, their muscles, even their brains to reveal the unique inner workings of the greatest beasts that ever lived. Hidden inside dino bodies are the anatomical secrets to surviving prehistoric Planet Earth for millions of years.
- CreatorKreg LauterbachGeorge BlasingStarsErik ThompsonGeorge BlasingThomas HoltzJurassic 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.
- StarsRick RoblesThomas HoltzScott HartmanA documentary series following various prehistoric creatures, depicting their way of lives as well as their lust for survival.
- StarsNigel MarvenThis 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.
- DirectorReuben AaronsonJames McQuillanPierre de LespinoisStarsJack HornerStephen KembleJimmie WoodPaleontologist Jack Horner questions the assumption that Tyrannosaurus Rex was a predator. He thinks there is a reasonable chance it was a scavenger that had little ability to hunt or even run. He's out in the field looking for evidence to try to settle the debate.
- StarsBray PoorNeil StukeRobert BakkerThis graphics intensive mega-series takes you on a backwards timeline to see what stood, lived, fought and died in your backyard hundreds, thousands, even millions of years ago.
- StarsChristian SlaterBen StillerDripping with kid friendly sarcasm, this series presents various animals from several periods that thrived during the age of dinosaurs and explains how they thrived, reproduced and co-existed.
- StarsSusan RaeRobert BakkerBen GazzaraPaleoWorld tracks the work of leading scientists as they solve baffling mysteries about the prehistoric era and bring our distant past vividly back to life.
- StarsPeter WardMichael CarrollCraig ChesnerThis documentary series explores the causes behind six major extinction events in Earth's history. It also speculates on the next such event.
- DirectorSean MacLeod PhillipsStarsLiev SchreiberJennifer AguilarMichael AshcraftBrings 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 bottom of the ancient oceans dramatizes awe-inspiring creatures.
- StarsBarbara FeldonRobert BakkerMartin RudwickDinosaurs are discovered by modern humans and studied to understand how they lived.
- StarsKenneth BranaghStockard ChanningLarry AgenbroadUsing 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.
- StarsRobert LeighMarcos AkiatenChip BolcikJourney 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.
- DirectorJenny KuboStarsJack HornerPaul SerenoGregory EricksonAs dinosaurs grew into the behemoths of the Cretaceous period they evolved many extraordinary but apparently useless features including spikes, sails horns, crests and the tiny "arms" of tyrannosaurs. The program reviews these unusual features and discusses theories of why they exist.
- StarsKenneth BranaghEdward GeroThe final installment in the "Walking with" series is a 90-minute documentary about the evolution of life before the dinosaurs.
- StarsJ.V. MartinThomas HoltzAndrea LeanzaLong-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.
- DirectorSean DashStarsSankar ChatterjeeMike EverhartJoe HannibalWhile presenting various lesser-known prehistoric giant creatures, various paleontologists explain how fossil analysis works and how they can deduce characteristics, behavior and look of these long extinct animals.
- DirectorJenny KuboStarsSalvatore VecchioMatthew CarranoJames M. ClarkA fossil mother lode in the Gobi Desert is providing a window into a critical period of the Jurassic period when dinosaurs gained the huge size but where few fossils have been found.
- DirectorSid BennettStarsPatrick DruckenmillerGregory EricksonSteve EtchesDeep in the Polar Arctic, the discovery has been made of a completely new species - a giant sea monster with the head of a T-Rex, a fifty-foot-long body the shape of a giant whale and huge flippers - making it the largest and fastest prehistoric sea creature ever to terrorize the oceans. Up until now the very existence of this creature during the Jurassic period has been completely unknown to science.
- DirectorJohn RubinStarsDino FreyMargo GerritsenKevin PadianRelive the age when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and monsters ruled the sky.
- DirectorMatthew DyasStarsDavid AttenboroughDouglas A. LawsonFamous 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.
- DirectorRobert GuenetteStarsChristopher ReeveRobert BakkerPhilip CurrieEverything you want to know about dinosaurs.
- DirectorDavid ClarkBayley SilleckStarsMichael DouglasSterling NesbittAlan H. TurnerThis program presents some of the more recent ideas about dinosaurs that are gaining acceptance while following paleontologists searching for fossils over the decades in the Gobi Desert and New Mexico.
- StarsBill OddieKen CarpenterPhillip ManningCGI, special effects and hi-tech scans are used to challenge everything you thought you knew about dinosaurs and their prehistoric world.
- DirectorAndrew PiddingtonStarsHenry Ian CusickPaul BrightwellMichelle BunyanOne man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific establishment to accept Britain had been inhabited by dinosaurs. As this dramatised documentary shows, Mantell had an uphill battle in a time when the biblical account of creation was considered literal truth and authorities such as the Reverend William Buckland were determined that science remain "the handmaid of religion".
- StarsRod ArthurSuzanne McNabbNigel MarvenNigel 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.
- StarsJohn HurtBased 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.
- DirectorRichard DaleTim GoodchildMark HedgecoeStarsBill MondyProposes a minute-by-minute chronology of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on the dinosaurs and other animals around the world.
- StarsBrian CoxPhysicist and professor Brian Cox travels across the globe to uncover the secrets of the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe: life.
- StarsBrian CoxThomas M. IliffeDoug AllanProfessor Brian Cox combines some of the most spectacular sights on Earth with our deepest understanding of the universe to reveal how the planet's beauty is created by just a handful of forces.
- StarsChris PackhamThere's nothing else like it. Chris Packham reveals the epic, 4.5-billion-year story of our home - from its dramatic creation to the arrival of human life - and whatever's next.
- DirectorMatthew ThompsonStarsDavid AttenboroughRobert DePalmaPhillip ManningSir David Attenborough presents this landmark documentary which brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the lost world of the very last days of the dinosaurs. Searching in the hills of North Dakota, palaeontologist Robert DePalma makes an incredible discovery in a prehistoric graveyard known as Tanis - fossilised creatures, astonishingly well preserved like the bodies found at Pompeii. Whilst DePalma hunts for the evidence that can shed light on the final days of the dinosaurs, state-of-the-art VFX transports Sir David back in time to the Late Cretaceous to witness the creatures who lived at Tanis at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Meanwhile, cutting edge scanning techniques reveal fossilised secrets that could change our understanding of the dinosaurs' extinction once and for all.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughToby NowlanChadden HunterPerfect Planet analyzes, in five episodes, how the forces of nature, including the power of the Sun or even humans, drive and shape life on Earth.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughCong LiuFreek VonkDive into a world where a single life can last a thousand years, with David Attenborough. See things no eye has ever seen, and discover the dramatic, beautiful plant life of Earth.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDaan SmitMark MacEwenA sequel to the Attenborough's great nature show following the lives of different dynasties from the animal kingdom.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughJamie McPhersonHelen HobinFollowing life in the frozen regions of the planet, including polar bears, Siberian tigers, snow monkeys, and penguins.