Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
BBC

Description

New Blood, Time of the Titans, Cruel Sea, Giant of the Skies, Spirits of the Ice Forest, Death of a Dynasty. Ride the ultimate time machine from the beginning of dinosaurs to their spectacular end! Using the latest in computer animation, this series puts you in the middle of Jurassic stampedes and T Rex battles, through 155 million years of pre-history.

Tags

Dinosaur

Collected reviews and ratings

10 DVD Verdict | Dean Roddey

I'm happy to say that finally someone has made a documentary series that both teaches well and looks very good.
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9.0 Amazon user reviews

If you're looking for a visual, all-encompassing, overall understanding of the world of dinosaurs, then look no further, as you've just found one such a document.
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8.8 Reel | Scott Collura

Only sophisticated technology like digital effects and animatronics could make such a venture possible, but the BBC has managed to produce, with the help of those very tools, a series that is so engrossing and remarkably designed that it is no wonder that it broke all viewership records when it aired in Britain in the fall of 1999.
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8.0 Urban Cinefile | Andrew L. Urban

The script is intelligent without being brainy, engaging and informative, often using a narrative device to maintain interest. There is enough detail to satisfy the student or academic (using the latest research available) but is never dry.
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8.0 documentaryfilms.net | David Loftus

Its sly "storytelling" approach to dinosaurs’ lives made it something more - and perhaps less - than a true-life nature special or scientific study: more to the average viewer, less to the hard scientist and dinosaur aficionado.
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6.0 UpcomingDiscs.com

I was most taken with how effectively the series captures the idea that these scenes are real and the narration simply commentary on what was observed.
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