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5 Stars Documentaries (028)
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
Produced by: BBC
From the Triassic period to the late Cretaceous - a mere 65 million years ago - Walking With Dinosaurs offers a unique insight into the lives of these spectacular reptiles.
Each programme traces the life of a group of dinosaurs at different times within their evolutionary history. The dramatic narrative describes [...]
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Walking with Cavemen (2003)
Produced by: BBC
This is the story of how a cocktail of extraordinary traits were combined to create us, human beings. Like its predecessors, Walking with Cavemen is made in the style of a wildlife documentary, featuring a voice-over narrator who describes the recreations of the prehistoric past as if they were real. [...]
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Walking With Beasts (2001)
Produced by: BBC
Ever since the dinosaurs died out over 65 million years ago our planet has been dominated by mammals. A succession of bizarre evolutionary experiments specimens have come and gone - from walking whales to sabre-toothed cats - yet many of these magnificent creatures have never been visualized. Here, for the [...]
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The Shape of Life (2001)
Produced by: Sea Studio Foundation
This eight-part television series takes a more-or-less phylogenetic waltz through the rise of animal life on earth, from origins of animals, to the milestones of movement and life on land, to the advent of a backbone as a remarkable evolutionary advancement.
Each episode is accompanied by specific scientific [...]
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The Planets (1999)
Produced by: BBC
While watching “The Planets”, be prepared to fight your way past all kinds of computer animation which makes “Walking with Dinosaurs” seem like the last word in realism. It seems that no solar or planetary event which ever happened (or which may or may not have happened) is worthy of mention [...]
