Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Animals, and Cavemen too.
A collection of dinosaurs, prehistoric animals, and cavemen in movies, TV shows, documentaries, and children's movies like Land Before Time and Ice Age. (No Barney)
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- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsW. Chrystie MillerRobert HarronMae MarshA man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man. Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering since her mother died. But when they venture out in search of breakfast, Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling into a cave. There, he hits upon the design for a club: A rock on the end of a stick. With this equalizer, he soon vanquishes Bruteforce and wins Lillywhite back again.
- DirectorWinsor McCayStarsWinsor McCayGeorge McManusRoy L. McCardellThe cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsRobert HarronMae MarshWilliam J. ButlerA primitive tribe are attacked by apemen and menaced by various prehistoric monsters.
- DirectorWillis H. O'BrienThree cavemen court Miss Araminta Rockface. She favors the one who apparently slew the Missing Link ... but a dinosaur did the deed.
- DirectorWillis H. O'BrienTwo prehistoric suitors, one a mailman, compete for the affections of a prehistoric maiden and a dinosaur.
- DirectorWillis H. O'BrienStarsAlan V. DayChauncey A. DayHerbert M. DawleyIn a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.
- DirectorHarry O. HoytStarsWallace BeeryBessie LoveLloyd HughesThe first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
- An animated introduction to the theory of evolution.
- DirectorHarry O. HoytWillis H. O'BrienStarsRalf HaroldeA lost submarine discovers a secret island where dinosaurs still live.
- DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsFay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce CabotA film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
- DirectorErnest B. SchoedsackStarsRobert ArmstrongHelen MackFrank ReicherThe showman who brought Kong to New York returns to Skull Island and finds Kong's son, a spunky 12-footer with a winning personality and his dad's awesome strength.
- DirectorMilton RosmerStarsSeymour HicksNancy O'NeilGibson GowlandA batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancJack LescoulieGo back billions of years to the dinosaur age with Caspar Caveman and his pet dino, Fido. Caspar spots Daffy in a lake and hunts him but Daffy just keeps outsmarting him.
- DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.The Rites of Spring sequence.
- DirectorHal Roach Jr.Hal RoachStarsVictor MatureCarole LandisLon Chaney Jr.Tale of Prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happened to be at slightly different stages of evolution.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsBud CollyerJoan AlexanderJackson BeckSuperman versus a thawed-out Tyrannosaurus.
- DirectorJack BernhardStarsVirginia GreyPhillip ReedRichard DenningAn adventure seeker and his fiancée visit an uncharted island, only to find that it is inhabited by deadly dinosaurs and other creatures ready to attack.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsCesar RomeroHillary BrookeChick ChandlerMajor Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing.
- DirectorNorman DawnStarsKasey RogersJames ArnessBill KennedyWhen the American clipper ship "The Queen" is attacked by pirates off the Hebrides in 1830, Mate Kirk Hamilton is injured and must be put ashore at Queensland Colony, Australia, for treatment and recuperation. There, he meets and falls in love with Elaine Jeffries, daughter of the magistrate and all-but-fiancée to rancher Martin Shannon. She also finds herself attracted to Kirk, and a rivalry develops between the two men. Meantime the pirates, led by Captain Hackett, decide to raid the colony and, in the process kidnap Elaine and her friend. Nancy. Kirk, and Shannon lead the pursuit, having not only the romantic triangle to resolve, but the pirates to overcome and, along the way, being stranded on a volcanic island inhabited by dinosaurs.
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsMikel ConradDoris MerrickRichard MonahanDuring World War II, an American bomber pilot is rescued after drifting at sea aboard a raft.
- DirectorEugène LouriéStarsPaul HubschmidPaula RaymondCecil KellawayA ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.Not a real dinosaur.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsTakashi ShimuraAkihiko HirataAkira TakaradaAmerican nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable dinosaur-like beast.Not a real dinosaur.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsVladimír BejvalZdenek HustakJosef LukásOne day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsWilliam BryantWanda CurtisDouglas HendersonA new planet moves into the Solar system and four scientists (two couples) are sent to explore planet Nova. In between romantic interludes, the cast faces an iguana masquerading as a Tyrannosaurus rex.
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsTheodore von EltzJohn StormA documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.Dinosaur Sequence.
- DirectorEdward NassourIsmael RodríguezStarsGuy MadisonPatricia MedinaCarlos RivasAn American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsKenji SaharaYumi ShirakawaAkihiko HirataA mining engineer investigates the death of his fellow coworkers and discovers prehistoric nymphs emerging from the mines. As he heads deeper into the mines, he makes a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsJock MahoneyShirley PattersonWilliam ReynoldsThree men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsRobert VaughnDarah MarshallLeslie BradleyA young man defies tribal laws and searches for answers. The result of his quest yields knowledge of past generations.
- DirectorEugène LouriéStarsGene EvansAndré MorellJohn TurnerMarine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur that threatens London.Not a real dinosaur
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsJames MasonPat BooneArlene DahlAn Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.Dimetrodons.
- DirectorIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.StarsWard RamseyKristina HansonPaul LukatherAfter undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the population. A boy teams up with a Neanderthal and an irritated dinosaur try to stop the dinosaurs.
- CreatorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsAlan ReedMel BlancJean Vander PylThe misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsMichael RennieJill St. JohnDavid HedisonProfessor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
- DirectorEugène LouriéStarsBill TraversWilliam SylvesterVincent WinterGreedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting the wrath of the creature's much-larger mother.Not a real dinosaur.
- DirectorPoul BangSidney W. PinkStarsBent MejdingAsbjørn AndersenPovl WøldikeAfter copper miners discover a piece of the frozen tail of a giant prehistoric reptile in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life.Not a real dinosaur
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsCesare DanovaSean McCloryJoan StaleyIn 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonPavel KlushantsevStarsBasil RathboneFaith DomergueMarc ShannonIn 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsRaquel WelchJohn RichardsonPercy HerbertPrehistoric man Tumak is banished from his savage tribe and meets pretty Loana, who belongs to a gentler coastal tribe, but he must fight caveman Payto to win her favors.
- CreatorSherwood SchwartzStarsFrank AletterJack MullaneyImogene CocaTwo astronauts traveling faster than light go back in time to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with the "natives".
- DirectorJustus AddissStarsRichard BasehartDavid HedisonHenry JonesThe Seaview's diving bell is driven by a tsunami onto a tropical island where a mysterious mist causes the survivors to see imaginary people and creatures.
- DirectorRafael PortilloStarsArmando SilvestreAlma Delia FuentesManolo FábregasA group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island inhabited by monsters of the prehistoric era.
- DirectorJim O'ConnollyStarsJames FranciscusGila GolanRichard CarlsonA cowboy named Tuck Kirby seeks fame and fortune by capturing an Allosaurus living in a Mexican valley and putting it in a wild west show. His star attraction, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public.
- DirectorWah ChangA short film about the history and eventual demise of the dinosaurs, all in stop-motion animation.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsMagda VásáryováEmil HorváthFrantisek FilipovskýWhen a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people. Among them Angelika, who just escaped from a ruthless weapon dealer's ship, and her two brothers, who are searching her. Then there's a group of natives, who plan a rebellion against the French colonists. All these conflicts become secondary when the people finally realize that they are doomed to live together on an alien planet. However this time of peace and world-happiness won't last for long...
- DirectorVal GuestStarsVictoria VetriRobin HawdonPatrick AllenSanna escapes being sacrificed and meets Tara. Together, they live in a seaside tribe that worships the Sun God and survive the dangers of the creatures from the Mesozoic Era.
- DirectorPasquale Festa CampanileStarsSenta BergerGiuliano GemmaFrank WolffSeven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live. One day they trap a strange animal who looks very similar to them, only softer with longer hair.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsJulie EgeTony BonnerRobin JohnIn prehistoric times, two brothers fight each other for the leadership of their tribe.
- DirectorPasquale Festa CampanileStarsSenta BergerLando BuzzancaRenzo MontagnaniTwo tribes of dimwitted cavemen prepare for war against each other.
- 1963–198925mTV-PG7.3 (459)TV EpisodeDirectorPaddy RussellStarsJon PertweeElisabeth SladenNicholas CourtneyThe Doctor and Sarah returns to present-day Earth, where they find London has been evacuated, and Dinosaurs are on the loose and they are mistaken for looters. Assisting U.N.I.T in the emergency, The Doctor and Sarah discovers corrupt politician Sir Charles Grover MP, renegade scientists Butler and Professor Whitaker and military officer General Finch are using a time machine to bring the dinosaurs from the past to the present as part of they scheme to bring the human race back to a "Golden Age" before the world was polluted.
- 1963–198923mTV-PG7.3 (449)TV EpisodeDirectorPaddy RussellStarsJon PertweeElisabeth SladenNicholas CourtneyYates sabotages the Doctor's equipment to stop him finding the location of Whitaker's base but then the tyrannosaur escapes, placing Sarah in danger.
- 1963–198924mTV-PG7.3 (451)TV EpisodeDirectorPaddy RussellStarsJon PertweeElisabeth SladenNicholas CourtneySarah attempts to find a way off the spaceship while the Doctor tries to track down the source of the time displacements.
- 1963–198925mTV-PG7.3 (447)TV EpisodeDirectorPaddy RussellStarsJon PertweeElisabeth SladenNicholas CourtneyThe Doctor has been framed as the monster maker by Finch and is on the run from the army, while Sarah attempts to alert UNIT to what Grover is up to.
- 1963–198926mTV-PG7.4 (452)TV EpisodeDirectorPaddy RussellStarsJon PertweeElisabeth SladenNicholas CourtneyThe Doctor is rescued from Finch by the Brigadier and Benton and tries to persuade them to stop Grover before millions of people are erased from history.
- CreatorAllan FoshkoMarty KrofftSid KrofftStarsWesley EureKathy ColemanSpencer MilliganA family finds themselves fighting to survive in a land populated by dinosaurs and otherworldly beings.
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsVictor FrenchWarren VandersHenry WilcoxonIn the last Ice Age, a family of Cro-Magnons battle a tribe of primitive Neanderthals for survival.
- StarsShannon FarnonMike RoadKathy GoriAmerican science teacher John Butler along with his wife Kim and their two children Katie and Greg, as well as their dog Digger, are on a rafting trip on the Amazon river. As they are going down the river, their boat gets caught in a dangerous current and capsizes. They are pulled into a whirlpool. When they surface they find themselves in a prehistoric valley where they meet caveman Gorak, his wife Gara and their two children Lok and Tana. The two families soon become friends and Gorak and his family help the Butlers in their many attempts to find a way to return home while trying to survive in the valley.
- DirectorKevin ConnorStarsDoug McClureJohn McEnerySusan PenhaligonDuring World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
- DirectorWilliam R. StrombergStarsRichard CardellaGlen RobertsMark SiegelA meteor that crashed into Oregon's Crater Lake unearths a dinosaur egg. The heat from the meteor causes the egg to hatch, and the emerging dinosaur takes to snacking on the locals.
- DirectorAlexander GrasshoffTsugunobu KotaniStarsRichard BooneJoan Van ArkSteven KeatsA wealthy big game hunter and his group become trapped in prehistoric times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.
- DirectorJunji KurataStarsTsunehiko WataseNobiko SawaShôtarô HayashiA young action scientist ventures back home following in his father's footsteps to find a dinosaur egg.
- DirectorKevin ConnorStarsPatrick WayneDoug McClureSarah DouglasIn 1919, a British expedition in the Antarctica region is searching for a lost American explorer and finds a hidden prehistoric world instead.
- DirectorJames K. SheaStarsMary ApplesethHarvey ShainDerna WyldeA space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Soon the crew discovers that there are dinosaurs on the planet. The crew have to survive until they hopefully are found and rescued.
- DirectorJuan Piquer SimónStarsKenneth MorePep MunnéIvonne SentisAlso known as "The Fabulous Journey to the Centre of the Earth" in the UK. The film is partially dubbed in English, but it has good cinematography.
- DirectorBill MayloneStarsSam PayneThis short animated film looks at the last of the great dinosaurs to stalk the central plains of North America. Lifelike models of ornithomimus, edmontosaur, and triceratops recreate the late Cretaceous period, offering a view of how our world may have looked 64,000,000 years ago.
- DirectorCarl GottliebStarsRingo StarrDennis QuaidShelley LongA caveman seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cavewoman.
- DirectorLarry BuchananStarsSandy KenyonMiki McKenzieBarry BuchananAn increasing number of people are dying mysterious deaths in the dark waters of Loch Ness, victims of the famous monster. But what other mysteries does the Loch hold? What about the monster's egg, and the insane scientist who'll do anything to exploit it? What secrets does the sunken Nazi plane near the monster's layer hold, and why will the military do anything to cover it up?Plesiosaur?
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsEverett McGillRon PerlmanNicholas KadiThis story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
- 1981–198625mTV-Y6.5 (139)TV EpisodeDirectorDon JurwichBob RichardsonStarsHans ConriedSally JulianJerry DexterKraven the Hunter is in New York City to show off his prehistoric animals. However, his sideshow is a cover for his plot to take over New York City by hatching a dinosaur army. He steals a rare ruby (the Eye of India) and kidnaps Firestar to coerce her into harnessing her energy to power a growth energizer, which will hatch the eggs containing the dinosaurs.
- DirectorToru SotoyamaTom WynerStarsTom WynerDan WorenRobin LevensonIn the year 2000 the dinosaurs return to Earth after 65 million years, now having evolved further into super monsters, to destroy mankind (who had believed that they were long since extinct) and take over the world.
- DirectorAlberto CavalloneStarsSven KrugerSasha D'ArcViviana Maria RispoliPrimitive humans had to adapt to their brutal and savage environment or disappear into oblivion. For Bog, a great warrior, this struggle means conquering the land and gaining supremacy over his rivals.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsReb BrownCorinne CléryJohn SteinerA warrior seeks his true origins in a seemingly prehistoric wasteland.
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsTimothy HuttonLindsay CrouseJohn LoneA prehistoric Neanderthal man found frozen in ice is revived by an arctic exploration team, who then attempt to use him for their own scientific means.
- DirectorBill NortonStarsWilliam KattSean YoungPatrick McGoohanA paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from a group of hunters intent on capturing the dinosaurs.
- DirectorDavid Oliver PfeilStarsDaniel RoebuckCynthia ThompsonDarren YoungThanks to a strange crystal, a shy student finds himself in the Stone Age, where he falls in love with a beautiful cave woman and helps her clan stave off a tribe of cannibals.
- DirectorRobert GuenetteStarsChristopher ReeveRobert BakkerPhilip CurrieEverything you want to know about dinosaurs.
- DirectorJonathan R. BetuelStarsJohn StockwellDanielle von ZerneckFisher StevensA high school student and his friend find a strange, orb-like piece of equipment to use as a science project, but must stop it when it begins to threaten mankind.Tyrannosaurus
- DirectorPhil TippettIn a dense forest, a monoceratops-type plant-eating dinosaur is stalked by a carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex.
- DirectorMichael ChapmanStarsDaryl HannahPamela ReedJames RemarA young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.
- DirectorRay CioniStarsMichele MarianaFred SavageJosette DiCarloPhilip gives a class report on dinosaurs, with the help of an animated chalkboard and Will Vinton's claymation dinosaurs.I saw this a lot as a kid, it's been playing on a continuous loop at the Milwaukee Public Museum since the late 80s.
- StarsStephen DorffChristopher CollinsWally BurrPursued by intergalactic warlord Krulos and his Rulons, human Valorians fly through a wormhole and end up on the prehistoric Earth. Krulos follows and becomes stuck in prehistory as well. Both sides build dinosaur armies and engage.
- DirectorDon BluthStarsPat HingleGabriel DamonHelen ShaverAn orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.
- DirectorCarol HughesDavid HughesStarsPeter ElliottMichael GambonBrian AbrahamsA million years ago in Africa, the last of the Australopithecines is on flight from the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of his kind, he traverses steppes, deserts and mountains until he reaches the coast. But there are already humans, there.
- DirectorRainer WolffhardtStarsMichael RollPatricia AdrianiManfred AndraeIn 1618 young David is working in a saline mine. With the help of dynamite he invents a new method of mining but when he frees a preserved troglodyte out of the salt the people think that this is the devil's own body...
- DirectorDaniel IvanickStarsRuis WoertendykePeter PrinsteinNoelle MuroThe adventures of a little boy named Danny and a tall dinosaur from a local museum.
- DirectorSandy OliveriA collection of trailers from various "B" dinosaur and creature movies spanning though out film history, but mostly focusing on the drive-in type films of the 1950's, 60's, 70's and early 80's.
- DirectorBrett PiperStarsPaul GuzziLinda CorwinAlex PirnieIn a post-Armageddon world, a young woman finds herself in a fight for survival against mutant cavemen, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
- CreatorMichael JacobsBob YoungStarsStuart PankinAllan TrautmanJessica WalterThis show follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have televisions, refrigerators, et cetera. The only humans around are cavemen, who are viewed as pets and wild animals.
- StarsTimothy BottomsJenny DruganRobert GavinA family is trapped in a dinosaur dominated alternative world and must struggle to survive it.
- DirectorBrett ThompsonStarsMarc MartoranaTony DoyleR.A. MihailoffA scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
- StarsBarbara FeldonRobert BakkerMartin RudwickDinosaurs are discovered by modern humans and studied to understand how they lived.
- DirectorTimothy BondStarsJohn Rhys-DaviesDavid WarnerEric McCormackTwo rivaling professors - a journalist, a young wealthy woman and a teenage boy - travel through Africa in search of "The Lost World", a place where dinosaurs still roam.
- DirectorTimothy BondStarsJohn Rhys-DaviesDavid WarnerEric McCormackWhen Belgian scientist Bertram Hammonds arrives in the Lost World to drill for crude oil, Professors Challenger and Summerlee return to the Lost World plateau.
- DirectorAdam SimonDarren Patrick MoloneyStarsDiane LaddRaphael SbargeJennifer RunyonA genetically manipulated and very hungry dinosaur escapes from a bioengineering company and wreaks havoc on the local desert town. A security guard and a girl environmentalist try to stop both it and the company's doomsday bioweapon.
- CreatorMark ZasloveStarsJim CummingsApril OrtizMax CasellaDr. Cecilia and her assistant Mike discover a mammoth frozen in a glacier. After being defrosted, Phil narrates the tales of Cro, a cave boy who uses simple engineering and physics concepts to solve everyday problems.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsSam NeillLaura DernJeff GoldblumA pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
- DirectorAlbert BandCharles BandStarsBrett CullenColleen MorrisSamantha MillsA young boy and his family embark on a series of adventures when the boy finds some mysterious eggs which hatch to reveal a brood of baby dinosaurs.
- StarsJeff GoldblumCould scientists one day create a living dinosaur using 100 million-year-old DNA? Find out in this tantalizing program from the award-winning NOVA series.
- DirectorPhil NibbelinkSimon WellsDick ZondagStarsJohn GoodmanCharles FleischerBlaze BerdahlA time traveling scientist goes back to prehistoric times and feeds dinosaurs a magic cereal that increases their intelligence - next they land in modern New York City for a series of comic adventures.
- DirectorFred Olen RayJim WynorskiStarsRoss HagenRichard GabaiAntonia DorianFive downed pilots must contend with hungry prehistoric beasts and lusty cave women on a lush island paradise.