Product Details

• Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Warner
• DVD Release Date: June 3, 2008
• Run Time: 564 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00153ZQY6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #18,891 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Explore the full spectrum of life before our time with BBCs History of Prehistoric Life! BBCs award-winning Walking With… series has captivated audiences all over the world with breathtaking digital effects and animatronics. Now relive the thrills with this collectors set, with over 9 hours of programming and almost 7 hours of special features! From the rise of monsters millions of years ago to the reign of dinosaurs, beasts and our own evolutionary predecessors, the end of that era is only the beginning! Includes: Before The Dinosaurs: Walking With Monsters Walking With Dinosaurs Allosaurus Walking With Prehistoric Beasts Walking With Cavemen

DVD Features:
Documentaries
Featurette
Interviews
Photo gallery
Storyboards

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating, July 30, 2008

By	Joshua Lewis (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Reading Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" parallel with watching episodes of this awesome vdieo series (not intentionally) really was a moving experience. I knew halfway through TSG I would never look at humans the same way again, and was awstruck by the awesome power of evolution in relation to the age of the earth. I was curious how accurate this video series would be, but it is very accurate. It covers almost all aspects of evolutionary theory including animal aggression, kin altruism and of course the evolutionary adaptations that various species have gone through in their millions of years of existence. This is worth the money you pay because there are plenty of hours of video and each "period" is covered from the earliest sea animals through the dinosaurs to land animals and humans. The video is all computer generated, obviously, since no video footage could possibly exist for our ancestors (did I even need to say that? haha), but it's well made. It isn't very cheesy at all. I highly recommend this video series for anyone interested in the theory of evolution and behavior of these fascinating animals...our distant relatives! (creationist nutcases: save yourself the time and money).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High quality infotainment, November 2, 2009

By	Brian A. Jacobs (Tallahassee, FL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This is an excellent series for introducing people to prehistoric life, and is beautiful in the way it envisions what life may once have been like.

Be forewarned that there are numerous artistic liberties taken with the facts in this film. It frequently shows animals interacting that never lived together, though most of the time animals LIKE those pictured lived together.

So, it's not a hyper-accurate scientific documentary, but it's illuminating, and gives people a lot to think about. I find that, for my schoolkids, the information is "accurate enough" and that many times they become interested in the material and learn more deeply about the information in the film on their own.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Prehistoric Earth DVD, September 15, 2009

By	Ivan Iniguez "magister Linguae Latinae" (El Paso, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Excellent Video. I highly recommend these videos to any Dinosaur enthusiast or to any Science teacher out there. It is worth watching these videos with your entire class. Great Educational tool.