Rent Walking with Beasts: Series (2001)

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2h 53min
Rent Walking with Beasts: Series (aka Walking with Prehistoric Beasts) Online DVD & Blu-ray Rental
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Synopsis:
The demise of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago, did not leave the world empty. A succession of extraordinary creatures has since come and gone, leading to our own ancestors, and yet we know virtually nothing about them. These bizarre beasts were some of the most fascinating creatures ever to have inhabited our planet. The award-winning team that brought us 'Walking with Dinosaurs' now explores the rise of the mammals. The latest scientific findings, advanced computer graphics and strong natural history stories are combined as we return to the sights and sounds of extinct worlds - this time full of life you hardly knew existed.
'Walking with Beasts' takes you on a journey through time to distant worlds: from the hottest, wettest climate the earth has ever known to one of the coldest - the Ice Age. See the early forerunners of the whale (walking!), avoid the carnivorous pig the size of a rhino, and pity the horse the size of a cat, eaten by a bird the height of a man! And we humans are not safe either - mighty saber-toothed cats with teeth the size of carving knives have a taste for our own ancestors!
Directors:
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Producers:
Nigel Paterson, Jasper James
Voiced By:
Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing, Larry Agenbroad, Frank Fish, Larry Witmer, Maureen O'Leary, Mark Uhen, Scott E. Foss, Kent Sundell, Japeth Boyce, Donald Prothero, Leslie Aiello, Bob Brain, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Alan Turner, Michael J. Benton, Michael Bisson, Karyn Drane, Cory Generoux, Lorne Duquette
Narrated By:
Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing
Writers:
Kate Bartlett, Jasper James, Michael Olmert, Nigel Paterson
Aka:
Walking with Prehistoric Beasts
Studio:
BBC
Genres:
British TV, TV Anime & Animation, TV Children & Family, TV Classics, TV Documentaries
Collections:
Getting to Know: Kenneth Branagh
BBFC:
Release Date:
08/04/2002
Run Time:
173 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Photo Gallery
  • Production Crew Interviews
  • Storyboard Comparisons
  • Beast Fact Files
  • Triumph of the Beasts: 50-minute special on the rise of the mammal
  • The Beasts Within: 50-minute special on scientists' search for man's link to apes
Disc 1:
This disc includes episodes 1-8
Disc 2:
This disc includes the special features

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Sabre tooth tiger - Walking with Beasts: Series review by JD

Spoiler Alert
22/03/2013

As you will discover there is no such animal as a sabre tooth tiger but what you think of as such was a dominant force. Having a Shakespearian actor narrating a natural history computer graphicised documentary is uncontextural and gives it a certain child story feel. There is plenty of complete and utter guesses which cannot be known through fossil evidence which for me makes it all less believable, but I thought there was enough possible information to be interesting.

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