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1. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 91,532 | Gross: $109.71M
2. Prehistoric Planet (2022–2023)
TV-PG | 203 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 10,687
3. Megalodon (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A military vessel on the search for an unidentified submersible finds themselves face to face with a giant shark, forced to use only what they have on board to defend themselves from the monstrous beast.
Director: James Thomas | Stars: Michael Madsen, Dominic Pace, Caroline Harris, Ego Mikitas
Votes: 2,566
4. A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Vladimír Bejval, Zdenek Hustak, Josef Lukás, James Lucas
Votes: 2,508
5. Racing Extinction (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Adventure, News
A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.
Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, Louie Psihoyos, Charles Hambleton
Votes: 8,198
6. Thunderstone (1999–2000)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A comet hit the Earth, destroying all. The world is frozen, but some humans managed to survive. Noah lives in an underground community. While improving the Holodeck, Noah accidentally travels in time.
Stars: Jeffrey Walker, Mereoni Vuki, Daniel Daperis, Kate Keltie
Votes: 408
7. Extinct or Alive (2018– )
45 min | Documentary, Adventure, Mystery
What if extinct animals weren't really extinct? The methods used to declare a species extinct are not as fool proof as people might assume. The search is on for wildlife adventurer and ... See full summary »
Stars: Forrest Galante, Cortni Borgerson, Nero Spannking, Jefreys Malaga
Votes: 392
8. Big Beasts: Last of the Giants (2018– )
45 min | Documentary, Adventure
Naturalist Patrick Aryee travels around the globe showcasing the majestic giant beasts that roam the Earth, usually three per episode. In between segments, he presents the extinct giant animals that used to rule the planet.
Star: Patrick Aryee
Votes: 29
9. Attenborough's Wonder of Song (2022 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
David Attenborough chooses seven of the most remarkable songs found in nature.
Directors: Mike Birkhead, Beth Jones | Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 219
10. Extinct or Alive: Tasmanian Tiger (2016 TV Movie)
36 min | Documentary
A trio of experts venture into Tasmania's undeveloped wilderness in search of the Tasmanian Tiger, one of the most terrifying predators ever to walk the earth.
Director: David Carr | Star: Forrest Galante
Votes: 42
11. World's Biggest Beasts (2015)
Documentary
What were some of the biggest land animals and sea creatures of all time? The show is a reedited version of Top 10 Biggest Beasts Ever (2015).
Star: Ryan Johnson
Votes: 25
14.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #3.5
(2019)
Documentary, History, War
While Nazi scientists were conducting brutal experiments in an attempt to create an Aryan master race, a team of zoologists were overseeing their own bizarre science trials.
Directors: Mike Ibeji, Justine Ostrowska | Stars: Klint Janulis, Guy Walters, Alexandra Churchill, Joshua Levine
15.
Lucinox (2020– )
Episode:
The Foods Which Extinct Animals Left Us
(2021)
8 min | Documentary
Avacados are a tasty fruit native to the Americas with a ridiculously large and bad tasting seed. Biologists believe avocados were consumed by a large animal that enjoyed the fruit and ... See full summary »
Star: Justin LaViolette
16.
Hybrid Librarian (2012– )
Episode:
World's 10 Weirdest Prehistoric Animals
(2015)
6 min | Documentary
Here are ten of the strangest creatures that ever existed. They include mammals, reptiles, fish and a few - I'm not really sure. Not to worry. They are all extinct. Just their names live on. And the names are even weirder.
17.
Trey the Explainer (2015– )
Episode:
Living Fossils, Evolution, and Cryptids
(2017)
18 min | Documentary, History
Trey challenges the Creations claim that "living fossils" disprove evolution. Like Darwin he views living fossil as evidence for evolution.
Star: Trey Swenton
18.
60 Minutes (1968– )
Episode:
Scattered Spider/Knife/Tasmanian Tiger
(2024)
TV-PG | Documentary, News
Hackers paralyze some of Las Vegas' biggest hotels and casinos; author Salman Rushdie; people searching for the mysterious Tasmanian tiger, an apex predator declared extinct 40 years ago.
Stars: Anderson Cooper, Anthony Curtis, Ayatollah Khomeini, Nick Mooney
Votes: 11