Name: Walking With Prehistoric Beasts
Released: 2001-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Stockard Channing

TV Show · Educational · Documentary

Using a unique blend of strong natural history stories and advanced computer graphics, the Walking with Dinosaurs team recreate another extinct world, exploring the rise of mammals to the arrival of modern man. From ferocious carnivores to heavily armoured herbivores; these creatures roam the earth as if they were alive today.

2001 · 29m

Starring Stockard Channing

Director Jasper James

EPISODE 1

New Dawn

Special effects filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago; the world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammals; whales have not yet evolved and their ancestors walk on the land.

28m
EPISODE 2

Whale Killer

A pregnant basilosaurus, an 18-meter, carnivorous whale which lives in the Tethys Sea, is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale to ensure the survival of her unborn calf.

28m
EPISODE 3

Land of Giants

Going back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the largest mammal ever to live on dry land, being seven metres high and weighing 15 tons; the only threat to an adult would have been the hyaenadon which was the size of a rhino.

29m
EPISODE 4

Next of Kin

The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia and the advent of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, like humans, was bipedal; these early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat.

28m
EPISODE 5

Sabre Tooth

Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats.

28m
EPISODE 6

Mammoth Journey

By the last Premian period, conditions were merciless and eventually less than five percent of life on Earth would survive. The landscape was dominated by herds of herbivorous Lystrosaurus who were being hunted by desperate carnivorous predators.

28m

Stockard Channing

Narrator
Jasper James

Director
Tim Haines

Producer

Season 1

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