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Walking with Dinosaurs

★ 8.5 8K votes 1999–1999 2 seasons · 8 episodes Ended BBC One
Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 10/10Wonder & aweSpectacle and imagination that expand the world.This show: 9/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 8/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 8/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 8/10Kids & familyGenuinely watchable for and with children.This show: 7/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Kenneth BranaghNikolay DrozdovAvery BrooksCraig SechlerAndré DussollierAkira Terao
Starring
Kenneth BranaghNikolay DrozdovAvery BrooksCraig SechlerAndré DussollierAkira Terao
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"The documentary trick that reinvented dinosaurs for TV"

This landmark BBC series recreates the age of dinosaurs as if a nature-documentary crew had traveled back in time, following individual creatures through mating, hunting, and survival across different prehistoric eras. There's no cast of characters to follow episode to episode, just calm narration over then-groundbreaking CGI creatures behaving like real animals. It feels slow and stately by design, more National Geographic than blockbuster, and the wonder comes from watching familiar documentary techniques applied to animals nobody has ever filmed. It aged the field of paleo-media forward more than it aged as pure entertainment.

Watch it for

the era-defining CGI that made dinosaurs feel like real, observed animals for the first time.

Maybe skip if

you want characters or plot rather than nature-documentary pacing and narration.

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All Seasons

Season 11999
8.52K73h 2m
Using the latest technology the amazing lost world of the Cretaceous, Triassic and Jurassic periods of Earth's history, when the dinosaurs reigned supreme, is brought stunningly back to life. The series provides insights into how these mammoth creatures appeared, how they survived for millions of years and probes the mysteries of their sudden disappearance leaving only a fossil record to show they had ever existed!
Season 2
8.478149m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kenneth Branagh Narrator, Self - Narrator UK
Nikolay Drozdov Narrator Russia, Self - Narrator, Narrator
Avery Brooks Narrator US
Craig Sechler Narrator US 2008
André Dussollier Narrateur (French version)
Akira Terao Narrator Japan
Peter L. Larson Self
Ichirô Furutachi Self - Host Japan

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