Lechuguilla One of the best documentaries I have ever seen, this BBC series uses a combination of Computer Generated Images (CGIs), animatronics, realistic sound effects, an intelligent script, and effective narrative transitions to tell the story of the rise and fall of the majestic creatures that lived during the Mesozoic Era. The program is educational, entertaining, and breathtakingly realistic.Though the focus is on the dinosaurs, the program puts them into their natural habitat, and thus we learn also about the vegetation, the climate, changes in the continental land masses, and smaller life forms of that era. Background music, combined with ominous images, conveys a hauntingly terminus message, accompanied by poignancy and sadness.Maybe some of the technical detail about the dinosaurs is a bit speculative or not quite in line with more recent information. Our knowledge about them continues to ... evolve. But these minor imperfections are overwhelmed by the program's terrific presentation of such a grand sense of historical perspective.Dinosaurs lived for over a hundred million years. Their extinction was not their fault; they did nothing wrong. By comparison, humans, thus far, rate barely a one sentence footnote in a multiple volume encyclopedia of Earth's history. And I doubt that we will be so fortunate as to be around for even one million years.My only disappointment is that the dino's demise only covers a few minutes of the final episode. I would like to have seen more information presented, and more time spent, on the likely causes of the K-T extinction event, specifically from the Chixculub crater impact and the volcanic eruptions from the Deccan Traps.Breathtaking in historical coverage and brilliantly produced, "Walking With Dinosaurs" is a program that everyone needs to see. I hope viewers will watch all of the episodes and thus can appreciate the diversity and grandeur of such magnificent creatures. If nothing else this program's geologic time-scale puts our little egocentric lives and petty political squabbles into proper perspective, showing how irrelevant we are in the grand scheme of things.

RoboKorp When i was small, i just loved dinosaurs (who didn't?). When this series aired in Finland, we recorded every episode on VHS. Then i watched them over and over again. Now, more than 11 years later, i found those old recordings. After watching a few episodes I was surprised about two things: firstly, i'm still very fascinated about those creatures, and secondly the computer animation still looks amazing, the dinosaurs look real and very much alive (and i might add: thirdly, rewinding a VHS still isn't much fun...)So if you have even the slightest interest in dinosaurs (or computer animation?), "walking with dinosaurs" is a must-see.

brower8 This is about the most convincing animation possible. One thinks that one has somehow been transported to a world that Man could never have evolved into. One is among nasty beasts, amimals even more ferocious than those that we humans warm up to -- dogs, dolphins, whales, and cats. One may never know exactly what dinosaurs were like, but this is the most convincing description yet of them and their world. Sure, the behavior of other animals, typically birds, is imputed to the most menacing of the carnivores. Then again, who would want to meet an oversized, flightless eagle? This treatment of dinosaurs is very different from the anthropomorphism that one associates with Disney fare. This is Nature red in tooth and claw, which their world was to the extreme. (Then again, it is unlikely that some series that reconstructs our world by some intelligence creatures 80 million years after our human demise will see much cute or cuddly in dogs, cats, dolphins, or whales -- let alone us.This documentary is gory -- as gory as a typical war movie or western at times. Do not show this to small children; show them instead the animated "Land Before Time" series of Disney-style anthropomorphism. Better yet, show them "Dumbo", the most successful anthropomorphism of an animal in the Disney pattern (elephants approach human intelligence, have a human life span and social structure, and have human-like emotions -- and they are almost dinosaurian in size). When the great rock fell into the Yucatan Peninsula, the remarkable era of the dinosaurs came to an end -- and ours became possible. Tragic as that collision was for the dinosaurs, that catastrophe made our world possible.

Calvin-23 This movie is well done. It really attempts to show what the dinosaurs had to contend with in their daily lives. The animation is very well done and the film makers have done a great job of giving scientific fact in such a way that it is entertaining. This is a great movie.