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Walking with Dinosaurs

  • TV Mini Series
  • 19991999
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 30m
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8.5/10
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Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
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Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
6.2K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,842
739
  • Stars
    • Nikolay Drozdov
    • Kenneth Branagh
    • Avery Brooks
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    • Nikolay Drozdov
    • Kenneth Branagh
    • Avery Brooks
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    • 51User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    • Won 3 Primetime Emmys
      • 14 wins & 8 nominations total

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    • Trivia
      Was originally to be narrated by David Attenborough, but he turned down the part, unwilling to support a fictitious, fake wildlife documentary. He would later open up to documentaries of prehistoric wildlife where animals are brought to life via special effects, lending his voice to productions such as Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough (2011), David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive (2014) and the series Prehistoric Planet (2022), which many consider to be the successor to Walking with Dinosaurs (1999).
    • Goofs
      All throughout the show, animals are consistently misplaced in time. In reality, only very few of the depicted animals lived in the time their respective episodes take place in.
    • Alternate versions
      The original UK version, shown on BBC, and the US version, shown on Discovery Channel, differ in various aspects:
      • Kenneth Branagh does the narration for the UK version, Avery Brooks for the US version
      • UK version is presented in 6 episodes à 30 minutes, US version is shown as a 3-hour special
      • US version is cut for gore
    • Connections
      Edited into Dinosaur World (2001)

    User reviews51

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    Mind blowing
    The concept behind this series is so brilliant, you wonder why nobody thought of it before. Do a dinosaur documentary, but do it in the style of, say, "Mutual of Omaha's Wild America" or something.

    The result is astonishing.

    The thing is, you end up not marveling at the special effects but at the fact that *you do not notice the effects*. You'd swear the filmakers really did go to the future Petrified Forest to get their footage. It's unreal.

    Simply put, this is what "Disney's Dinosaur" had mad delusions of being.

    There were, granted, a few scenes that had me going "I... don't... know..." (most notably the mother sauropod laying her eggs with an ovipositor that'd shame the "Aliens" queen and then leaving them there), and the music tends to be *very* hyperdramatic. All complaints aside, this is true movie magic. And who can complain about that?

    Note to teachers: In case you're thinking of showing this to the kids, I'd give this a PG-13. It isn't any more violent than your average animal documentary, but there's quite a bit of -gasp!- saurian sex.
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    • Release date
      • April 16, 2000 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • BBC (United Kingdom)
      • Discovery Channel
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Прогулянки з динозаврами
    • Filming locations
      • Parque Nacional Conguillío, Región de la Araucanía, Chile
    • Production companies
      • BBC Natural History Unit (NHU)
      • Impossible Pictures
      • Discovery Channel
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    • Runtime
      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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