Sur la terre des dinosaures

Original title: Walking with Dinosaurs

TV Mini Series
1999
TV-14

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8.5/10

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Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.

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Won 3 Primetime Emmys
- 14 wins & 8 nominations total

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Trivia
Was originally to be narrated by David Attenborough, but he turned down the part, unwilling to support a fictitious, fake wildlife documentary. He would later open up to documentaries of prehistoric wildlife where animals are brought to life via special effects, lending his voice to productions such as Ptérodactyles 3D - Dans le ciel des dinosaures (2011), David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive (2014) and the series Planète préhistorique (2022), which many consider to be the successor to Sur la terre des dinosaures (1999).

Goofs
All throughout the show, animals are consistently misplaced in time. In reality, only very few of the depicted animals lived in the time their respective episodes take place in.

Alternate versions
The original UK version, shown on BBC, and the US version, shown on Discovery Channel, differ in various aspects:
Kenneth Branagh does the narration for the UK version, Avery Brooks for the US version
UK version is presented in 6 episodes à 30 minutes, US version is shown as a 3-hour special
US version is cut for gore

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Edited from Black Rain (1989)

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Featured review

10/10

Awesome

Great "documentary" of how scientist's believed dinosaurs behaved, captured with some of the most spectacular CGI since "Jurassic Park". Done completely seriously, like a prehistoric episode of "Nation Geographic". Grabs your attention from the first frame and never lets go. My favorite part was when the Diplodocus fights off the Allosauros.

10 stars. This is what science is all about.