Editorial Review:

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

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.

Average Rating:

Rating: - High quality infotainment
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.

Rating: - Prehistoric Earth DVD
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.

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Rating: - Very good, but........
It`s entertaining and the cgi visuals are excellent. But keep in mind that much of what you see in the films is best guess or even made up.
It`s really more of an entertainment program than a real documentary.
But keeping that in mind, watch it. It is very entertaining and your kids will love it.

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Rating: - story time
this is a fiction story advertised and sold as a non-fiction fact.... the narrator makes only subtle hits to this fact. when paying as much as this film was and expecting a non-fiction story i got robbed. this item should be categorized with movie as fiction. i was offended as to the way the narrator made constant remarks throwout the story that this is a factual story that it had to be this way or that because of this and that when we all know no one has any true knowledge or facts of this time era. the only thing i found nice in this story was the filmography had some very nice nature scenes. i would not rec amend this story to anyone i would rec amend to watch a story like Jurassic park first.

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Rating: - fascinating
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).

Related Items:

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (National Geographic)

Discovery Essential Dinosaur Pack

Jurassic Fight Club: Season One

Chased By Dinosaurs

Walking With Cavemen