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1. Amazing Dinoworld (2019–2023)

49 min | Documentary

New fossil discoveries are revolutionizing the way we view these ancient reptiles. Marvel at these scientifically accurate, beautifully-rendered CG dinosaurs as we examine what years of hard science has shown us about how they once lived.

Stars: Mone Kamishiraishi, Salvatore Vecchio, Dean Lomax, Lawrence Witmer

Votes: 113

2. Amazing Dinoworld (2019–2023)
Episode: The Feather Revolution (2019)

Documentary

Consider a whole new world of colorful, fluffy dinosaurs. Feathers, the evolutionary breakthrough that allowed for more stable body temperatures, which translated into outstanding mobility, even in cold weather.

Directors: Yusuke Matsufune, Kazuki Ueda | Stars: Mone Kamishiraishi, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Salvatore Vecchio, Lawrence Witmer

Votes: 13

3. The Nature of Things (1960– )
Episode: The Real T.Rex (2018)

Documentary

Join an investigative journey around the world to uncover the mysteries of the most famous dinosaur super-predator: the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Directors: Mark Everest, Chris Goldade, Martin Williams | Stars: David Suzuki, Julia Clarke, Philip Currie, Gregory Erickson

Votes: 5

4. T-Rex: An Evolutionary Journey (2016)

50 min | Documentary

Documentary exploring the evolutionary path of the Tyrannosaurus, following the journey of two dinosaur brothers and theoretical evolution from smaller dinosaurs originating in Asia based on new fossil findings in China.

Director: Keimei Yamazaki | Stars: Karl Bates, Steve Brusatte, Seiko Chujo, Dean Fujioka

Votes: 52

5. 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

6. Naked Science (2004– )
Episode: Life After Dinosaurs (2011)

43 min | Documentary, Adventure

While, despite the title, less than half this program occurs after the dinosaurs went extinct, viewers are introduced to a wide variety of our furry ancestors and a bird or two including a few that coexisted with the dinosaurs.

Director: Kazuki Ueda | Stars: Michael Archer, Philip Currie, Adrian P. Hunt, Zhe-Xi Lou

Votes: 9

7. La relève du dinosaure (2010)

Documentary

Told in animated images, the battle of mammals to make in on Earth, evolve or become extinct.

-The end of a world: Planet Earth is now a mammal kingdom, a big family totalling some 5,000 ... See full synopsis »

Directors: Olivier Julien, Daisuke Takama | Star: Lawrence Witmer

Votes: 12

8. 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: 108

9. Bizarre Dinosaurs (2009)

48 min | Documentary

As 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Jenny Kubo | Stars: Jack Horner, Paul Sereno, Gregory Erickson, Robert Bakker

Votes: 182

10. Clash of the Dinosaurs (2009)

TV-PG | 172 min | Documentary, History

Dinosaurs 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 ... See full summary »

Stars: Jason Hildebrandt, Richard Coyle, Ken Carpenter, Peter L. Larson

Votes: 231

11. 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

12. Prehistoric Predators (2007– )
Episode: Terror Bird (2009)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, Animation, History

South America became home to creatures found nowhere else on Earth--Terror Birds. Capable of killing large prey with a single blow from their massive beaks, they were the only birds ever to become top predators on an entire continent.

Director: Darryl Rehr | Stars: Luis Chiappe, Bob Chandler, Guillermo Aguirrezabala, Sara Bartelli

Votes: 19

13. Prehistoric Predators (2007– )
Episode: Razor Jaws (2009)

TV-PG | 46 min | Documentary, Animation, History

Hyaenodon created a reign of terror by just using its head. Its powerful, razor sharp bite could dispatch a prey animal within seconds and left a mark in history that will never be matched.

Director: John Joseph | Stars: Christopher Kent, Robert Leigh, Douglas Martin, Richard Stucky

Votes: 11

14. Clash of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Episode: The Defenders (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

Predators didn't dominate the Cretaceous period - plant-eaters did. And their bodies were built to take a beating. The latest science reveals the anatomical secrets that made the earth's largest vegetarians successful.

Directors: Chloe Leland, Nick Green | Stars: Jason Hildebrandt, Richard Coyle, Robert Bakker, Ken Carpenter

Votes: 29

15. Clash of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Episode: Extreme Survivors (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

The advantages and disadvantages of the survival strategies of the maternal instincts of the herbivore Sauroposeidon and carnivore Tyranosaurus Rex.

Director: Nick Green | Stars: Jason Hildebrandt, Richard Coyle, Robert Bakker, Ken Carpenter

Votes: 38

16. Clash of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Episode: Generations (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

More than a million generations adapted dinosaurs to a changing planet. But each successful generation boils down to a single encounter between two like-minded reptiles. The latest science ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Green | Stars: Jason Hildebrandt, Richard Coyle, Robert Bakker, Ken Carpenter

Votes: 25

17. Clash of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Episode: Perfect Predators (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

This program presents Tyrannousaurus Rex as primarily a lumbering predator and secondarily a scavenger or cannibal. Deinonycus is presented as an agile, crafty pack hunter. Quetzalcoatlus ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Green | Stars: Jason Hildebrandt, Richard Coyle, Robert Bakker, Ken Carpenter

Votes: 33

18. Monsters Resurrected (2009– )
Episode: Terror Bird (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary

When the land bridge between North and South America formed, the terror bird migrated north where is competed with the saber tooth cat and wolves. This program examine why the wolf survived... See full summary »

Stars: J.V. Martin, Lawrence Witmer

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. Prehistoric Monsters Revealed (2008 TV Movie)

Documentary, History

While 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.

Director: Sean Dash | Stars: Sankar Chatterjee, Mike Everhart, Joe Hannibal, Alexander Kaiser

Votes: 58

21. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: Bloodiest Battle (2008)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

A chance discovery leads to a paleontologist's gold mine, an trove of several dinosaur fossils including a large percentage of rare predators. As scientist piece together what happened at ... See full summary »

Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Philip Currie, Thomas Holtz

Votes: 19

22. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: Cannibal Dinosaur (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

This episode profiles Majungasaurus, the top predator on the Island of Madagascar seventy million years ago. Based on bite marks on the skeleton of one animal paleontologists believe one ... See full summary »

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Philip Currie, Lawrence Witmer

Votes: 24

23. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: Gang Killers (2008)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

Paleontologists speculate that some dinosaurs were pack hunters. The discovery of a fossil site containing several deinonychus and a much larger herbivore provide a prime opportunity to evaluate this hypothesis.

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Peter L. Larson, Larry Dean Martin

Votes: 24

24. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: T-Rex Hunter (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

As an apex predator Tyrannosaurus Rex seems invulnerable to attack. So the discovery of the fossil of a juvenile T-Rex with multiple broken bones made paleontologists wonder, what killed it.

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Lawrence Witmer, Philip Currie

Votes: 25

25. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: Hunter Becomes Hunted (2008)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

The Jurassic brought a pair of ceratosaurus and an allosaurus, two Apex predators, together and they didn't like each other. Jurassic Fight Club profiles the two competitors before letting ... See full summary »

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Larry Dean Martin, Lawrence Witmer

Votes: 23

26. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: Biggest Killers (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

Profiles five apex predators; allosaurus, utahraptor, majungatholus, albertasaurus and tyrannosaurus rex then contrasts their likely hunting styles.

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Larry Dean Martin, Thomas Holtz

Votes: 17

27. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: Raptor vs T-Rex (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

The tail of a giant herbivorous edmontosaurus and the body of a tiny raptor is mysterious for what is missing. how could raptors kill the edmontosaurus and if they did what happened to the ... See full summary »

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, Lawrence Witmer, Philip Currie, George Blasing

Votes: 20

28. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: Raptors Last Stand (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

A Paleontologist discovers the fossils of an previously unknown armored herbivore with a carnivore nearby. Jurassic Fight Club simulates what the encounter between these two animals might have been like.

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, Robert Gaston, Jim Kirkland, Thomas Holtz

Votes: 19

29. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: River of Death (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

Paleontologists look to modern day mass deaths to help determine what killed the herd of pachyrhinosaurus found in a fossil field in Alberta Canada.

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Lawrence Witmer, Peter L. Larson

Votes: 19

30. 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

31. The Mystery Dinosaur (2006 TV Movie)

TV-G | Documentary

This is the story of a mystery dinosaur called jane, who has baffled the greatest minds in paleontology from the moment she was unearthed.

Directors: Dave Monk, Kathy Monk | Stars: Mike Henderson, Scott Williams, Robert Bakker, Thomas Carr

Votes: 20

32. Miracle Planet (2004– )
Episode: Extinction and Rebirth (2005)

Unrated | 50 min | Documentary, History, Mystery

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Directors: Joanne Carrière, Shin-ya Ide, Olivier Julien, Wally Longul | Stars: Christopher Plummer, K. Christopher Beard, Douglas Erwin, Gary Granville

33. Naked Science (2004– )

60 min | Documentary, Adventure

Documentary series featuring various subjects related to science and technology.

Stars: Eric Meyers, Michael Izquierdo, Rushmore DeNooyer, Roger Tilling

Votes: 349

34. Miracle Planet (2004– )

TV-G | 325 min | Documentary, History, Mystery

Over its more than 4-billion-year history, Earth has been home to repeated violent climactic changes, which have caused mass extinctions. And yet, life has survived.

Stars: Christopher Plummer, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Jean-Philippe Puymartin, Gary Granville

Votes: 150

35. Triumph of the Beasts (2001 TV Movie)

50 min | Animation, Documentary

Triumph of the Beasts explains just how mammals replaced the dinosaurs as the largest, fastest and fiercest creatures in the world. 65 million years ago a giant meteorite struck the earth, ... See full summary »

Director: Kate Bartlett | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Lawrence Witmer

Votes: 59

36. The Nature of Things (1960– )

60 min | Documentary

Various science documentaries are presented.

Stars: David Suzuki, Sarika Suzuki, Jennifer Gardy, Niobe Thompson

Votes: 274