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Walking With Beasts - The Complete Series
2001
This BBC nature documentary uses animation and hours of researched facts to attempt to recreate the age between the extinction of the dinosaurs and the dawn of the modern human. Among the most intriguing creatures are giant flightless birds, the saber-toothed tiger, and the many predecessors to human beings. The programme, .. Read more
| Starring | Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing, Larry Agenbroad, Frank Fish |
|---|---|
| Director | Nigel Paterson |
| Genres | Television |
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Walking With Beasts - The Complete Series
This BBC nature documentary uses animation and hours of researched facts to attempt to recreate the age between the extinction of the dinosaurs and the dawn of the modern human. Among the most intriguing creatures are giant flightless birds, the saber-toothed tiger, and the many predecessors to human beings. The programme, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, is an incredible document focused on prehistoric beasts, brought to life with amazing computer-rendered graphics.
| Starring | Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing, Larry Agenbroad, Frank Fish, Larry Witmer |
|---|---|
| Director | Nigel Paterson |
| Studio | BBC WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Television |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 08 Apr 2002 Production year: 2001 |
| Format | DVD |
Walking With Beasts - The Complete Series (2001)
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
superb series
the walking with beasts series is awesome. my children were captivated by the beasts that were (via computer graphics technology) moving across the television screen, in their natural habitat.
if you love dinosaurs, or want to know more about the animals that roamed the earth millions of years ago, then this is the dvd disc set for you.
kenneth branagh is superb as the narrator.
and my 4 children were so engrossed in watching this series that it was very quiet in my house for a change! -
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The documentary version
Not quite what I was expecting. Whereas the Walking with Dinosaurs bonus is basically a 'making of', I guess they thought they didn't need to repeat that, and this resembles the documentary they could have made about the same material that is presented in Beasts. Since you had the 'on location' stories of individual beasts in the original series, here you have the talking heads explaining more of the science, intercut with clips from the series and Branagh voiceover with more detailed explanations.
There is a tiny bit of stuff about making the series, but it's the human side - who did what rather than how the effects were created.
Quite interesting, but I'd rather have had two more episodes of the series so we could see some more of the amazing (and largely unknown) creatures! -
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