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51. The Dinosaur Hunter (2000 TV Movie)
82 min | Adventure, Drama
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
Director: Rick Stevenson | Stars: Wendy Anderson, Russell Badger, Alan Bratt, Joely Collins
Votes: 252
52. When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time (2019– )
89 min | Documentary, Adventure
A deep dive into the evolutionary history of whales, elephants, crocodiles and birds.
Star: Lee Pace
Votes: 163
53. The Day the Dinosaurs Died (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 60 min | Documentary
Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Directors: Nick Green, Ben Lawrie, Toby Macdonald | Stars: Alice Roberts, Ben Garrod, Joanna Morgan, Mark Boslough
Votes: 197
54. Dinotasia (2012)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Animation
A collection of vignettes presenting possible experiences in the lives of dinosaurs during various periods.
Directors: David Krentz, Erik Nelson, David E. Duncan | Stars: Werner Herzog, Lorànt Deutsch
Votes: 427
55. Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink (2014 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 46 min | Documentary
This program describes the detective work and evidence for the generally accepted causes of two of the five mass extinctions, the KT and Permian. Then follows a diatribe on the speculation ... See full summary »
Director: Sarah Holt | Star: Tian Wang
Votes: 60
56. Attenborough's Passion Projects (2016)
60 min | Documentary
To honor their famous host and renown naturalist Sir David Attenborough's 90th birthday, the BBC has re-released David's four favorite programs from his extremely rich and influential career. He gives a short introduction to each of them.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 142
57. Les kidnappeurs (1998)
102 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Four thieves named Davíd, Dilan, Christine, and Chase are forced to kidnap a high-profile dog from a dog show after a diamond robbery goes horribly wrong. Dice are rolled, cans are smashed, and darts are punched.
Director: Graham Guit | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Élodie Bouchez, Romain Duris, Isaac Sharry
Votes: 268
58. Journey of the Universe (2011)
TV-G | 56 min | Documentary
The Emmy Award winning JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE tells an epic story of cosmic, Earth and human transformation from The Big Bang to today. Evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and ... See full summary »
Directors: David Kennard, Patsy Northcutt | Star: Brian Thomas Swimme
Votes: 247
59. Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives (1989)
156 min | Documentary
David Attenborough's comprehensive study of fossils, which give many clues to how life existed on pre-historic Earth.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 888
60. Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World (2010)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short, History
The T-Rex of the Seas come alive.
Directors: Ronan Chapalain, Pascal Vuong | Stars: Guillaume Denaiffe, Norbert Ferrer, Chloe Hollings, Richard Rider
Votes: 452 | Gross: $6.60M
61. Inside Planet Earth (2009 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
A fantastical - but factual - journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Director: Martin Williams | Stars: Richard Lintern, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 285
62. The Valley of the T-Rex (2001 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Paleontologist 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Reuben Aaronson, James McQuillan, Pierre de Lespinois | Stars: Jack Horner, Stephen Kemble, Jimmie Wood
Votes: 87
63. Waking the T. Rex: The Story of SUE (2010)
23 min | Documentary, Short
In 1990, deep in the badlands of South Dakota, paleontologists unearthed the bones of a monster. Forty feet long and weighing several tons, the fossil skeleton was assembled and rebuilt ... See full summary »
Director: David Clark | Stars: Joan Allen, Peter Makovicky, Bill Simpson, Lindsay Zanno
Votes: 11
64. Dragons or Dinosaurs? (2010)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, History
Dragon images, legends and lore exist all over the world in many different cultures. But what if dragons were actually dinosaurs?
Director: André van Heerden | Stars: Krysta LeBlanc, Chris Gorman, Ralph deGroot, Abigail de Groot
Votes: 80
65. Sky Monsters (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary
Relive the age when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and monsters ruled the sky.
Director: John Rubin | Stars: Dino Frey, Margo Gerritsen, Kevin Padian, Nick Schatzki
Votes: 43
66. Darwin's Dilemma (2009 Video)
71 min | Documentary
Darwin's Dilemma examines what many consider to be the most powerful refutation of Darwinian evolution - the Cambrian fossil record.
Director: Lad Allen | Stars: Doug Axe, Stephen C. Meyer, Simon Conway Morris, Paul Nelson
Votes: 93
67. 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: 21
68. 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
69. Dino Rampage (2023 Video)
82 min | Family, Sci-Fi
When Jurassic Park meets Transformers, you get Dino Rampage. The future of Earth is at stake when two species of dinosaurs, one peaceful and one bred for battle come face to face in an epic stand off.
Directors: Mingquan He, Leon Ding
70. Save a Little Sunshine (1938)
75 min | Comedy, Musical
Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Dave Willis, Pat Kirkwood, Tommy Trinder, Max Wall
Votes: 31
72. Time Collectors (2012)
Not Rated | 108 min | Mystery
Sam, a wealthy independent paleontologist, makes a fossil discovery that challenges mainstream evolutionary thinking. Sam suspiciously turns up dead, leaving his inheritance and secret to ... See full summary »
Director: Caleb Johnson | Stars: Nick Snell, Deanne Snell, Larry Walangitan, Jack Davenport
Votes: 56
73. The Dinosaur Mummy (2007 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
An extremely rare mummified Cretacious period hadrosaur gives paleontologists a remarkable opportunity to learn more about dinosaurs. The appearance of the animal's skin is readily apparent... See full summary »
Director: Jenny Kubo | Stars: Sam Hazeldine, Craig Sechler, David Hodgetts, Tyler Lyson
Votes: 32
74. The Sea of Perdition (2006)
8 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
A Warren Comics style short portraying a stranded cosmonaut on Mars.
Director: Richard Stanley | Star: Maggie Moor
Votes: 163
75. Cave Diving: Mount Gambier (2007 Video)
51 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Rubens Monaco | Stars: Dave Murray, Fredi Berger, Stephen Bourke, Steve Dale
76. Why 99% of Smithsonian's Specimens Are Hidden in High-Security (2022 Video)
12 min | Documentary, Short
The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens - everything from pickled animals to priceless gems to dinosaur bones - but less than 1% is on display. The rest is ... See full summary »
Stars: Abby Narishkin, Floyd Shockley, Hans-Dieter Sues, Daniella Haigler
77. Oklahoma Rocks! (2008)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
"Oklahoma Rocks!" is a celebration of the billion year history of the 46th state. Geologist Devin Dennie travels across Oklahoma to learn the secrets of the state's origin through its sand, stone and soil.
Director: Todd Kent | Star: Devin Dennie
Votes: 11
78. Meren tuomat (2021)
56 min | Documentary
Beachcombers are people who search for treasures on shorelines. Ocean currents carry all sorts of stuff to the beaches.
Director: Anna Antsalo | Stars: Rob Arnold, Shigeo Hayashi, Lonneke Beukenholdt, Jolanda Bos
Votes: 63
79. Footprints in Stone: Forbidden History II (2013 Video)
34 min | Documentary, Short, History
Directors: Cameron Heidrick, Jeffery Jack | Stars: Stephen Skinner, Aaron Judkins, Robert Summers, Carl Baugh
80. Under the Big Sky
Thriller, Western | Filming
Director: John McGough | Stars: Sean Dillingham, Jax Menez Atwell, Derek Solorsano, Billy Burns
81. WNBR Mossel Bay (2023 Video)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Juanita takes part in her own unofficial World Naked Bike Ride in Mossel Bay, stopping at a few attractions along the way.
Star: Juanita Pretorius
82. Bone Diggers (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary
Australian scientists discover the perfectly preserved fossil skeleton of a marsupial predator, Thylacoleo Carnifax, which is revealed to be more than a million years old and the only one ... See full summary »
Directors: Clay Bryce, Stuart Scowcroft | Star: Gavin Prideaux
Votes: 9
83. Lure of the Flinders (1962)
14 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Director: John Kingsford-Smith | Star: Stewart Ginn
84. Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 125 min | Documentary
Filmed live in Roswell, NM at the Ancient of Days Conference--the first Christian symposium on aliens--Gary Bates, the CEO of Creation Ministries International and author of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Gary Bates, Guy Malone
Votes: 11
85. The Most Groundbreaking Scientist You've Never Heard Of (2013)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Anton Bogaty | Star: Addison Anderson
87. Auf den Spuren der Dinosaurier (2012)
48 min | Documentary
Stars: Alexander Brandt, Kai Dahm, Pascal Glißmann, Nils Knötschke
88. The Rutgers Debate (2003 Video)
99 min
Stars: Geo Baker, Mia Betancourt, Nick Brooks, Nicaragua Corley
90. Quest for Dragons (2007 Video)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary
Dragon images and stories abound in ancient literature, archeology, mythology, and science. From as far back as 4000BC Sumeria to today, dragons have pervaded human cultures worldwide. But are they real?
Star: Tucker Smith
Votes: 11
91. Cave: Searching for Australia's Forgotten Beasts (2011)
Documentary
Web series recording the August 2011 expedition to the Nullarbor caves, a collaborative effort between the Western Australian Museum and the Flinders University to search for Megafauna fossils in this remote and isolated area of Australia.
Stars: Gavin Prideaux, Aidan Couzens, Minh Tran, Clay Bryce
92. Standing Tall: Lone Star Statues (2007)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Standing Tall: Lone Star Statues explores Texas culture through the statues found along the highways and back roads of the Lone Star State. Big Tex and Sam Houston are a few of the more ... See full summary »
Director: Todd Kent | Star: Devin Dennie
94. Jack Absalom on the Strzelecki Track (1985 Video)
45 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Director: John Mabey | Star: Jack Absalom
95. Wild Travels: America's Oddest Museums (2021)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
Where are the weirdest, wildest, and most outlandish aspects of our history and culture celebrated and preserved? Your host Will Clinger will show you where when you accompany him to visit the unusual world of America's oddest museums.
Director: Harvey Moshman | Stars: Tim Arnold, Stewart Bailey, Dianne Bicknese, Will Clinger
96. The Lost Redwood (2019)
14 min | Short, Documentary
A rare tree species known only in fossil form is discovered alive and well in a remote valley in China in the 1940s. The ensuing battle over scientific credit overshadows the tree's hearty ... See full summary »
Director: Jesse Andrew Clark
100. Running Wild: Australia's Camels (2016 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Director: Ben Hawke | Stars: Robyn Davidson, Tahmina Ansari, John Bean, Bejah
Votes: 7