Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "tethys-sea"

1. Walking with Prehistoric Beasts (2001)
Episode: Whale Killer (2001)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Documentary

36 million years B.C., a pregnant Basilosaurus whale resorts to desperate measures to find food for herself and her unborn infant. On land, mammals are growing into enormous creatures.

Director: Nigel Paterson | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing, Larry Agenbroad, Frank Fish

Votes: 163

2. Naked Science (2004– )
Episode: Colliding Continents (2006)

TV-G | Documentary, Adventure

The history and a projection of the future of the Earth's land masses caused by continental drift is explain by the theory of plate tectonics.

Director: Tom Stubberfield | Stars: Ronald C. Blakey, Samuel A. Bowring, Páll Einarsson, Alex F.M. Kisters

Votes: 18

3. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: Africa Today (2014)

TV-G | Documentary, History

When the super continent Gandwana began to break up into the modern day continents, Africa separated from Europe forming the Tethys Ocean. But Africa changed it's mind. It is now traveling ... See full summary »

Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: Jordane Corbeau, Francis Duranthon, Anna Flori-Lamour, Yann Klinger

Votes: 10

4. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: Europe: Tropical Beginnings (2012)

TV-G | 51 min | Documentary, History

Europe is a continent of mountain ranges. Multiple collisions with other tectonic plates created multiple mountain ranges covering much of this relatively small continent, Some are so large... See full summary »

Directors: Chris Hooke, Yanick Rose | Stars: Stéphane J. Bureau, Rob Butler, Lionel Cavin, Raymond Cirio

Votes: 12

5. Atlas Pro (2018– )
Episode: What Did Pangaea Look Like? (2019)

13 min | Documentary

Pangaea was the most recent super continent (if you don't count modern Eurasia-Africa). To determine the environments of the continent start with an overall map of how the current ... See full summary »

Star: Caelan Kelley

6. Atlas Pro (2018– )
Episode: The Island of Dwarf Dinosaurs: Island Biogeography 3 (2021)

16 min | Documentary

Franz Nopcsa, who incidentally lead a quite colorful life, discovered a plethora of gigantic dinosaur species that were actually tiny. And a tiny dinosaur species that was actually gigantic... See full summary »

Star: Caelan Kelley

7. History of the Earth (2020– )
Episode: A Tour of Earth's Ancient Superoceans (2021)

43 min | Documentary

Rodinia and Pangea were super-continents formed when all the land masses of the Earth merged due to plate tectonics. If all the land merged so too did the oceans into super-oceans we call ... See full summary »

8. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: Sahara (2009)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History

Scientists present evidence that the Sahara Desert periodically transitions from desert to a lush green environment and back. They also present theories about why this happens.

Director: Gabriella Polletta | Stars: Corey Johnson, Jen Smith, Peter de Menocal, Nick Drake

Votes: 36

9. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: The Alps (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

The Alps are known as the majestic mountain range of Europe. But their formation from a collision between Europe and Africa left an unstable structure that is now a classic study in erosion... See full summary »

Directors: David Hutt, Rachel Scarrott | Stars: Corey Johnson, Toni Bürgin, Mark Feldmann, Dirk Hellwig

Votes: 22

10. Dinosaur Planet (2003– )
Episode: Pod's Travels (2003)

Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary, Animation, Family

A mainland pyroraptor is washed to sea in a Tsunami then washes ashore on an island in the Tethys sea. There he is confused by all the dwarf species and struggles to understand his new niche.

Director: Pierre de Lespinois | Stars: Christian Slater, Scott Sampson, Bruno Bichir, Lutz Riedel

Votes: 39

11. Prehistoric Planet (2022–2023)
Episode: Coasts (2022)

TV-G | 42 min | Documentary, Animation, History

A pregnant Tuarangisaurus is in distress and her young calf can sense it as she travels waters that are home to the ocean's deadliest predators.

Star: David Attenborough

Votes: 1,227

12. Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy (2003)
Episode: Into the Jaws of Death (2003)

Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Animation, Adventure

Nigel continues to court danger in the Devonian as he teases a dunkleosteus and in the Eocene trying to hand feed an arsinoitherium. Then to the Pliocene for an counter with history's largest shark.

Director: Jasper James | Stars: Christopher Cook, Karen Hayley, Nigel Marven

Votes: 85