Product Details

• Actors: Christopher Reeve
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: May 5, 1993
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303626963
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #191,638 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Explore the creation and extinction of the dinosaur with scientists who specialize in the study of prehistoric life, dinosaur enthusiasts such as a sculptor who turns junk into "fossilized art", incredibly life-like stop-motion animation that recreates the environment in which these creatures lived more than 50 million years before man, an amazing look at the role of the dinosaur and their modern-day descendants, and more!

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great review of dinosaur scientific knowledge, October 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dinosaur! [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This videotape is for all age groups. Christopher Reeves does an excellent job narrating. Hollywood film clips, dinosaur experts, museum visits, and on location digs are included to inform the viewer in an entertaining way. This videotape leaves the viewer wanting more. I'd like to see a part 2 video continuing where this one left off in 1985 using Christopher Reever as the narrator and some of the same experts to see if theories have changed and exploring new information.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, March 30, 2001

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Thanos6 (Chapin, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dinosaur! [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I've had this (taped off of the Disney Channel) since I was a kid, and I still love it, 16 years after it was produced. It's almost flawless in every area. It covers all the bases, from scientific knowledge to how dinosaurs are portrayed in entertainment. There are quite a few stop-motion action sequences of the dinosaurs, which hold up to this day. The best and most shocking is the one involving a Struthiomimus and two of the Deinonychus. It makes "Jurassic Park" look tame in comparison; watch it and you'll see what I mean. Nearly as shocking is the sequence featuring the battle between a T-Rex and the one-horned Monoclonius. Highly recommended!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Dinasaur Film, May 11, 2005

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Andre S. Grindle "Andre' Grindle" (Brewer Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dinosaur! [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am 25 years old but I still enjoy this film.It is highly informative and uses very accurate animation to depict the lifes of different generations of dinasaur.The last Christopher Reeves in his pre-paralyzed years narrates this film that not only explores dinasaurs in eductional terms but they're impact on pop culture.It is a very fun show,it aired on network TV in the mid 80's but would do very well on PBS.And it taught me a valuable lesson as a child-dinasaurs became extinct,perhapes because of thee asteroid collision depicted here or not.But in one form or another (namely the Ostrich and the alligator) have evolved and survived.So dinasaurs and their history give us an important lesson about the instinct to survive no matter what is in your way.And beyond that ask any kid,even today and they'll likely say their favorite animal is the dinasaur because they're so different but because for creatures so based in instinct they dominated the Earth perhapes even longer then we humans have.And as this show depicts that may be why these
giant,exotic reptiles fascinate us so.