Topic: Prehistory

Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Prehistory. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.


Primal (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 22 min. · United States

Direction Genndy Tartakovsky

Plot Primal features a caveman at the dawn of evolution. A dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival in a...

Max

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

Prehistoric Planet (TV Series)

2022 · Documentary · 42 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Andrew R. Jones · Adam Valdez

Cast David Attenborough

Plot TV Series (2022-). First Season: 5 Episodes.The series will transport viewers 66 million years in the past to discover our world and the dinosaurs that roamed it. With Hans Zimmer...

7.6

650 votes

7.6

650 votes

Traces (S)

2019 · Movie · 13 min. · France

Direction Hugo Frassetto

Plot 36.000 years ago, in the caves of Ardèche, an animal drawed is an animal hunted. Gwel leads the hunters while Karou, the artist, is teaching Lani how to draw. But...

7.6

46 votes

7.6

46 votes

Three Ages

1923 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Wallace Beery · Margaret Leahy · Joe Roberts

Plot Keaton spoofs D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" in his debut feature as creator/star. He demonstrates both comic and dramatic skills as he parodies the evils of intolerance in prehistoric times, ancient Rome...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Ice Age

2002 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Chris Wedge · Carlos Saldanha

Plot In this computer-animated feature, a woolly mammoth (voiced by Romano) and his sidekick Sid, a talkative sloth (Leguizamo), risk peril, the on-coming ice age and a hungry tiger to return...

7.3

119K votes

7.3

119K votes

Planet Dinosaur (TV Miniseries)

2011 · Documentary · 150 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nigel Paterson

Cast John Hurt

7.2

181 votes

7.2

181 votes

Quest for Fire

1981 · Movie · 105 min. · Canada

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Everett McGill · Rae Dawn Chong · Ron Perlman · Nicholas Kadi

Plot This story takes place in prehistoric time when three prehistoric tribesmen search for a new fire source.

7.2

13K votes

7.2

13K votes

Primal: Tales of Savagery

2019 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Genndy Tartakovsky

Plot GENNDY TARTAKOVSKY'S PRIMAL - TALES OF SAVAGERY features a caveman and a dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival.

7.2

230 votes

7.2

230 votes

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010 · Documentary · 95 min. · France

Direction Werner Herzog

Plot Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

A Species' Odyssey (TV Miniseries)

2003 · Documentary · 270 min. · France

Direction Jacques Malaterre · Javier G. Salanova

Plot It portrays the origins of Mankind from the moment the first primate stood up on their hind legs and set off to conquer the African Savanna, to modern Man, setting...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Ice Age: Scrat's Continental Crack-Up (S)

2010 · Movie · 3 min. · United States

Direction Steve Martino · Mike Thurmeier

Plot One of filmdom's most beloved trios - "Ice Age's" Manny, Diego, and Sid - embark upon their greatest adventure after cataclysm sets an entire continent adrift. Separated from the rest...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Walking with Cavemen (TV Miniseries)

2003 · Documentary · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Dale · Pierre de Lespinois

Plot The great follow-up to 'Walking with Dinosaurs' and 'Walking with Beasts', presented by Professor Robert Winston, explains the story of human evolution.

6.8

151 votes

6.8

151 votes

Walking with Monsters (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Documentary · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Haines

Plot 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...

6.8

531 votes

6.8

531 votes

Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy (TV Miniseries)

2003 · Documentary · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jasper James

Plot On a unique underwater voyage spanning millions of years in prehistory, our dauntless presenter explores seven different seas, encountering an extraordinary variety of underwater life from seven different eras. His...

6.8

256 votes

6.8

256 votes

You Are Umasou

2010 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Masaya Fujimori

Plot A female Maiasaura finds a lost egg and decides to raise it along her own baby. To the herd's surprise, the child born from the stray egg is a Tyrannosaurus....

6.8

34 votes

6.8

34 votes

Walking with Dinosaurs (TV Miniseries)

1999 · Documentary · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Haines · Jasper James

Plot Using the latest technology the amazing lost world of the Cretaceous, Triassic and Jurassic periods of Earth's history, when the dinosaurs reigned supreme, is brought stunningly back to life. The...

6.8

4K votes

6.8

4K votes

Birth of Civilization (TV)

2007 · Documentary · 105 min. · France

6.8

201 votes

6.8

201 votes

Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (TV)

2016 · Documentary · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charlotte Scott

Cast David Attenborough · Diego Pol · Ben Garrod

Plot David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest-known dinosaur, a brand new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long – close to four...

6.8

30 votes

6.8

30 votes

Gone Nutty (S)

2002 · Movie · 5 min. · United States

Direction Carlos Saldanha

Plot Scrat is putting one last acorn into a huge and very neatly arranged stash, but it keeps popping up. He jumps on it -- once too often, and the whole...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

6.6

44 votes