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

1. Walking with Dinosaurs (1999– )

TV-14 | 30 min | Documentary, Animation, History

Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.

Stars: Nikolay Drozdov, Kenneth Branagh, Avery Brooks, Craig Sechler

Votes: 6,894

2. When Dinosaurs Ruled (1999– )

Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary

Jeff Goldblum, the star of Jurassic Park (1993), narrates this five-part documentary about the dinosaurs of North and South America, Europe, Africa and Australia and Antarctica.

Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Susan Rae, Robert Bakker, Paul Sereno

Votes: 71

3. Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (2007)

Unrated | 40 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

Brings to life some of the most bizarre, ferocious and fascinating creatures to ever inhabit the ocean. Combines animation with recreations in a prehistoric adventure. A journey to the ... See full summary »

Director: Sean MacLeod Phillips | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Jennifer Aguilar, Michael Ashcraft, Paul W. Burmaster

Votes: 1,073 | Gross: $23.55M

4. When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001 TV Movie)

Unrated | 91 min | Animation, Documentary

The life of American dinosaurs is seen in amazing detail. The Feathered Dromeosaurs (Raptors) debut on this film along with the bizarre Therizinosaur. Each story is compelling and ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre de Lespinois | Stars: John Goodman, Karen Chin, Philip Currie, Jim Kirkland

Votes: 559

5. The Dinosaurs! (1992– )

Documentary

Dinosaurs are discovered by modern humans and studied to understand how they lived.

Stars: Barbara Feldon, Robert Bakker, Martin Rudwick, David Norman

Votes: 87

6. Animal Armageddon (2009– )

45 min | Documentary, History

This documentary series explores the causes behind six major extinction events in Earth's history. It also speculates on the next such event.

Stars: Peter Ward, Michael Carroll, Craig Chesner, Mathew Wedel

Votes: 215

7. Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink (2014 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 46 min | Documentary

This program describes the detective work and evidence for the generally accepted causes of two of the five mass extinctions, the KT and Permian. Then follows a diatribe on the speculation ... See full summary »

Director: Sarah Holt | Star: Tian Wang

Votes: 60

8. The Age of Reptiles (1960)

17 min | Short, Action, Adventure

A look back at prehistoric Earth and the creatures that lived in this era.

Director: Donald F. Glut | Stars: Donald F. Glut, Paul Klug

Votes: 11

9. Walking with Monsters (2005)
Episode: Clash of Titans (2005)

TV-G | 29 min | Documentary

Can life on Earth survive the most devastating extinction-event that has ever swept across the globe? And who will become the forerunner of the mighty dinosaurs?

Director: Chloe Leland | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Edward Gero

Votes: 121

10. Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany (2017)
Episode: Advent of Seeds: Cycads and Ginkoes (2017)

Documentary

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Star: Catherine Kleier

11. Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy (2003)
Episode: Dangerous Seas (2003)

Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Animation, Adventure

Nigel first goes fishing in the Ordovician. Even though fish hadn't evolve yet there's plenty of creatures to catch if they don't catch him first. In the Triassic he finds plenty of fish ... See full summary »

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

Votes: 103

12. Mammals vs. Dinos (2006–2007)
Episode: The Age of Gigantism (2006)

TV-G | 45 min | Documentary, Animation, History

220 million years ago, Dinosaurs and Mammals begin their 150 million year battle for dominance.

Directors: Kazuki Ueda, Olivier Julien | Stars: Craig Sechler, Misuzu Takahashi, Tesshô Genda, Jean-Philippe Puymartin

13. PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode: How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings (2019)

9 min | Documentary

A non-avian ancestor of the pterosaurs has yet to be discovered but paleontologists are getting closer to understanding what it looked like. Clearer is why pterosaurs went extinct along with the dinosaurs.

Star: Blake de Pastino

14. Myron Cook (2022– )
Episode: An Ordinary Looking Nevada Mountainside Reveals Extraordinary Geology and Beauty. (2023)

30 min | Documentary

Valley of Fire State Park contains mountains of beautiful red banded sandstone. But in some cases it's covered by much older dolomite, the same dolomite the sandstone rests on three miles ... See full summary »

Star: Myron Cook

15. ExtinctZoo (2022– )
Episode: What Earth Was Like Just Before the Dinosaurs? (2023)

14 min | Documentary, Animation, History

The Permian-Triassic extinction a quarter billion years ago marks the beginning of the age of dinosaurs. But it was tens of millions of year later that life could get back to normal because... See full summary »

16. ExtinctZoo (2022– )
Episode: The Reason Birds Survived While Pterosaurs Went Extinct (2024)

13 min | Documentary, Animation, History

The KT extinctions was particularly hard on large apex predators, such as pterosaurs, that faced a sever food shortage relative to their size, compared to smaller herbivorous birds that ... See full summary »

17. The Dinosaurs! (1992– )
Episode: The Monsters Emerge (1992)

Documentary

An overview of the history of the discovery of dinosaurs is related, leading to modern paleontology.

Directors: Kathi White, Trudi Brown | Stars: Barbara Feldon, Martin Rudwick, David Norman, Peter Dobson

Votes: 7