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- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Director: Stanley Kubrick. 2001: A Space Odyssey. G. Adventure. Mystery. Sci-Fi. Release Date. April 2, 1968. Director. Stanley Kubrick.
- One Million Years B.C. (1966) Director: Don Chaffey. The 1966 film One Million Years B.C., a remake of the 1940 movie, completely disregards the 65-million-year separation and brings dinosaurs and humans together.
- Three Ages (1923) Directors: Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton. Buster Keaton's 1923 film Three Ages was his first full-length feature as writer, producer, director, and star.
- Ice Age (2002) Director: Chris Wedge. Ice Age is a family-friendly animated film from 2002. Set during a great ice age, the story follows a woolly mammoth, a sabertooth tiger, and a sloth who team up to return a human baby to its parents.
- The Lost World (1925). One of the first ever cinema outings for dinosaurs, this silent era adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel has some remarkably good animation for its time.
- King Kong (1933). A true classic, and while the eponymous giant ape may be the star, the dinosaurs play a prominent role. Inevitably, we see a very much herbivorous sauropod desperate to chow down on a sailor, setting the tone for many future dinosaurs in movies, but the stegosaurus with its period-correct four pairs of tail spikes and the wonderfully animated tyrannosaurus are both great.
- One Million Years BC (1966). It’s probably fair to say that accuracy wasn’t a priority here, with “cavemen” (from as recently as 10,000 years ago) mingled with a range of prehistoric animals (from 150 million to 65 million years ago), but the dinosaurs and other animals animated by stop-motion legend Ray Harryhausen are a delight.
- The Valley of Gwangi (1969). An even better Harryhausen dinosaur movie, though a much less well known one. This features a “lost valley” of dinosaurs uncovered in Mexico by a circus owner, which leads to the fantastic spectacle of the titular carnivore fighting an elephant after the local cowboys have thrown lassos over a centrosaurus.
- “10,000 BC” (2008) We’re not starting with a big movie, but with one that has a year from prehistory as its title. “10,000 BC” is a Roland Emmerich film, so it’s basically a big, sloppy action movie but only set in ancient times.
- “The Flintstones” (1994) No, “The Flintstones” is not accurate. Humans didn’t live alongside dinosaurs, much less have bird can openers. However, the Flintstones truly is the modern Stone Age family.
- “One Million Years B.C.” (1966) Years before Emmerich made his film, another movie went way further into prehistory. is actually a remake of a 1940 film, but this is the one people remember because it starred Raquel Welch and had stop-motion animation from the legendary Ray Harryhausen.
- “Caveman” (1981) A broad caveman comedy starring Ringo Starr and directed by the co-writer of “Jaws?” It happened! “Caveman” is kind of a crazy slice of film history for its weirdness.
Dec 23, 2013 · There are three ways movies put humans in peril at the claws of prehistoric creatures: genetic experiments gone awry, time travel, and lost worlds.
- His Prehistoric Past (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. He’s got the moustache, he’s wearing the hat and he’s twirling the cane, but in the last of his shorts for the Keystone company, Charlie Chaplin’s little tramp is also sporting a fetching bearskin, having been transported in a dream back a few thousand years.
- Three Ages (1923) Directors: Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton. In contrast to Chaplin’s bustling screen persona, the point about Keaton’s deadpan poise is that this guy’s never phased by anything, which allows him to play the same plucky underdog character across three distinct time periods in this comic triptych.
- Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939) Director: Chuck Jones. Daffy Duck is on relatively restrained form in this Merrie Melodies offering, which is a pioneering example of how animation’s elasticity of form could put itself to good use in depicting prehistory.
- One Million Years B.C. (1966) Director: Don Chaffey. Looking for a new venture beyond their cash-spinning Dracula and Frankenstein horror franchises, British indie outfit Hammer took on one of their most ambitious projects with this remake of Hal Roach’s similarly titled landmark prehistoric adventure from 1939, which pitted lusty primitive Victor Mature against rival tribes and sundry over-sized lizards.
May 1, 2023 · There have been many movies about the prehistoric era that have explored, examined, and evaluated the lives of our cavemen and ape-like ancestors over the years, going back to the early years...
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Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live. One day they trap a strange animal who looks very similar to them, only softer with longer hair.
