An entertaining documentary look at dinosaurs with Emmy Award-winning special effects, feature film clips and stills, commentary by leading paleontologists of the time, and an on camera as well as voice-over narrative by Christopher Reeve. Shot on location in Los Angeles and New York at the American Museum of Natural History
Practical Effects
Emmy-winning stop-motion that aged like a fine wine
Acting
Christopher Reeve's voice could make grocery lists epic
Director
Robert Guenette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired during the massive 1980s dinosaur renaissance when Jurassic Park was still eight years away and feathered dinosaurs were barely a hypothesis.
Robert Bakker appears here as the revolutionary paleontologist he was; Michael Crichton later based the chaotic Ian Malcolm partly on him.
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