Walking with Monsters - Life Before Dinosaurs (2005)
Impossible Pictures

Description

A 90-minute documentary about life before the dinosaurs. Starting from the Cambrian Period (530 MYA) and ending at the Early Triassic Period (248 MYA), Walking With Monsters shows the life and death struggles prehistoric creatures before the dinosaurs went through. It also portrays an accurate picture of our first ancestors.

Collected reviews and ratings

10 digitallyobsessed.com | Mark Zimmer

The documentary style works exceedingly well here, with the creatures on occasion interacting with the camera (the Brontoscorpio attacks it and breaks the lens, while the Lystrosaurus sniffs it curiously), bringing a spellbinding "you-are-there" aspect to the proceedings.
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9.0 Amazon user reviews

Of all the Walking with Dinosaurs offshoots, this is by far the best one in terms of diversity of life and presentation style.
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7.6 DVD Verdict | Rob Lineberger

By the end of the ninety minutes, I became convinced that this documentary was an impressively realized but wholly sensationalized rough sketch. There is undoubtedly exciting scientific postulation buried in the images, but it's hard to tell what is real and what is entertainment.
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7.0 New York Times | Nathan Southern

Computer-generated graphics are used here to bring evolutionary ideas to vivid life, exploring how the evolution and adaptation of species occurred -- entertaining young viewers while encouraging them to think about prehistory.
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6.0 MonstersAndCritics.com | Jeff Swindoll

The filmmakers state that the objective of the series is not to formulate an academic thesis but bring prehistory to life. It might help your enjoyment of the show to keep this in mind. I know that it would’ve helped me to know this beforehand, not that it greatly affected my enjoyment of the programs.
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