Prehistory movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant prehistory movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, light, exciting, entertaining, serious and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with adventure, escapades, dinosaur, family, danger, caveman, survival, fantasy world, catastrophe and chase plots mostly in Adventure, Family and Fantasy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
prehistory
TOP 10 movies tagged as prehistory: Quest for Fire (1981), Dinosaurs (1991), Ao: The Last Hunter (2010), Walking with Dinosaurs 3D (2013), The Croods (2013), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), The Good Dinosaur (2015), The Land Before Time (1988), Animal Kingdom: Let's go Ape (2015), Cavegirl (1985).
Best films
List of prehistory movies
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
tribe, survival, cannibalism, fire, nudity (full frontal - brief), adventure, mammoth, neanderthal, obsessive quest, human nature, graphic violence, buddies ...
Time:
prehistoric times, stone age, prehistory
Place:
scotland, africa
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16K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
dinosaur, family relations, puppets, puppet, eccentric family, parents and children, workplace situations, mischievous children, animal life, everyday life, disorder, boss and employee ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, 90s, prehistoric
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Genre: Adventure, History
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was born. His aim is to join his twin brother, from whom he was ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
caveman, pregnancy, survival, adventure, fall in love, forbidden love, human nature, society, danger, rivalry, couples, wilderness ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times
Place:
europe, siberia
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Walking with Dinosaurs 3D is a film depicting life-like 3D dinosaur characters set in photo-real landscapes that transports audiences to the prehistoric world as it existed 70 million years ago. The film is based on the 1999 documentary television ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, stylized, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
dinosaur, heroes, animal life, wilderness, against the odds, forces of nature, underdog, danger, adventure, extinction, survival, predator ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times
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188K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world's first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, exciting, touching, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschoolers
Plot:
adventure, family life, family relations, youth, survival, caveman, teen romance, disney, parents and children, journey, cave, hunting ...
Time:
prehistory, stone age, prehistoric times, ancient world, prehistoric ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This Italian-Turkish co-production helmed by genre veteran Antonio Margheriti (using the pseudonym "Anthony M. Dawson") was cobbled together from a four-part science-fiction miniseries shown on Italian television. In prehistoric times, the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, bleak, suspenseful, cult film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
rivalry, heroes, village, monster, time travel, adventure, future dystopia, escapades, imaginary, space and aliens, danger, chaos ...
Time:
prehistory, future, 80s
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Flintstones are at it again. The Flintstones and the Rubbles head for Rock Vegas with Fred hoping to court the lovely Wilma. Nothing will stand in the way of love, except for the conniving Chip Rockefeller who is the playboy born in Baysville ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, not serious, offbeat, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dinosaur, goofy hero, fish out of water, disorder, friendship, heroic mission, nothing goes right, misfit, best friend, marriage proposal, family, silly humor ...
Time:
prehistory, stone age, prehistoric times
Place:
las vegas, nevada, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hammer Film’s follow-up to the successful One Million Years B.C. is set in an ancient past when humans and dinosaurs co-exist. Athletic cavewomen and hairy men wander around, grunting, sweating and occasionally sacrificing evil blonde babes to ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, offbeat ...
Plot:
cave woman, tsunami, survival, adventure, dinosaur, danger, rivalry, heroes, chaos, love affair, prehistoric creature, invented language ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, prehistoric, stone age
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
Style:
exciting, humorous, touching, scenic, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
dinosaur, adventure, friendship, family, unlikely partners, friends, partners, escapades, meteor, waterfall, meteorite, fear ...
Time:
prehistory
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, colourful, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
adventure, dinosaur, natural disaster, disney, friendship, survival, talking animals, tyrannosaurus rex, earthquake, animal life, family, danger ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, 80s
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
While trying to obtain "Tree Sweets", Littlefoot into the tree and knocks down all the blossoms, attracting the Tinysauruses. They devour the plants and disappear. But Littlefoot isn't blamed for the disappearance, instead he ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, light
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
adventure, dinosaur, heroes, friendship, heroic mission, unlikely partners, mischievous children, anti hero, good versus evil, escapades, rescue, anti heroes ...
Time:
prehistory
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France, Italy, China, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the novel 'Evolution Man' by Roy Lewis, this tells the story about the first man - young Edward - to descend from apes. Edward is ejected by his tribe, but is very resourceful. He learns to walk, discovers fire, manages to hunt - ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
evolution, computer animation, animal life, adventure, self discovery, jungle, inventions and discoveries, disorder, danger, escapades, wilderness, misfit ...
Time:
prehistory
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On a class excursion to a cave with stone age paintings the clumsy Rex gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sets him back to the stone ages, where he meets a group of prehistoric fellows and the gorgeous Eba. While teaching ...
Style:
sexy, not serious, sexual, humorous, cult film
Plot:
time travel, nudity (full frontal - brief), cave woman, teenage life, goofy hero, romance, youth, love and romance, silly humor, sent to the past, caveman, female nudity ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When ...
Style:
serious, stylized, harsh, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
caveman, orphan, tribe, adventure, rescue, cavemen, danger, uninhibited rivalry, human nature, teaching the ways of the world, self discovery, wilderness ...
Time:
prehistoric times, stone age, prehistory, 80s
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As the Earth wrestles with its agonising birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from ...
Style:
exciting, serious, cult film, psychotronic, allegory ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, rivalry, caveman, survival, desert, volcano, pterodactyl, adventure, danger, misfit, heroes, escapades ...
Time:
stone age, prehistoric times, prehistory, future, 80s
Place:
tokyo
Is relevant ?
52K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
Style:
touching, feel good, entertaining, scenic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
dinosaur, disney, extinction, adventure, survival, friendship, rescue, family reunited, buddies, danger, computer animation, wilderness ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, prehistoric
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Rick Marshall and his children Will and Holly were on a weekend expedition rafting trough a river when an enormous earthquake diverts them to an eclectic alien world inhabited by dinosaurs, chimpanzee-like cavemen called Pakuni, and aggressive, ...
Style:
semi serious, stylized, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dinosaur, time travel, parallel world, fish out of water, getting home, adventurer, danger, expedition, disorder, anti hero, imaginary, dangerous animal ...
Time:
prehistory, 70s, prehistoric times
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, time machine, adventure, danger, experiment gone awry, survival, disorder, evolution, heroic mission, escapades, technology ...
Time:
future, prehistory, prehistoric times
Place:
chicago illinois
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. ...
Style:
touching, road movie, humorous, not serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers, date night, pre-teens
Plot:
unlikely friendships, rescue, adventure, friendship, talking animals, caveman, family, life risking, journey, ice, creature, bonding ...
Time:
prehistoric times, stone age, prehistory, prehistoric
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, offbeat, feel good, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
dinosaur, caveman, friendship, cavemen, family relations, best friend, adoption, family, workplace, buddies, silly humor, cons and scams ...
Time:
prehistory, stone age, prehistoric times, quarry, 80s
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In this comedy, Atouk becomes leader of the misfit cavemen. Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, offbeat, witty, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
parody, dinosaur, farce, caveman, friendship, rivalry, anti hero, silly humor, friends, disorder, heroic mission, misfit ...
Time:
stone age, prehistory, prehistoric times, 80s
Is relevant ?
91K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
Style:
humorous, epic, gross out humor, funny, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
caveman, adventure, cavemen, parody, circumcision, farce, goofy hero, social misfits, misfit, danger, partners, buddies ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age
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Genre: Family, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
Style:
serious, idiotic, humorous, sweet, ridiculous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
jungle, dinosaur, family, adventure, world war two, family life, forces of nature, wilderness, heroic mission, experiment gone awry, survival, rivalry ...
Time:
prehistory, 80s, prehistoric times
Place:
africa
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125K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Style:
epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, adventure, heroic mission, daring rescue, pyramid, hunter, wilderness, redemption, danger, legends and myths, destiny, jungle ...
Time:
stone age, prehistory, prehistoric times, future
Place:
north africa, egypt
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19K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.
Style:
claymation, light, funny, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
caveman, soccer match, dinosaur, family, couples, gadget, friendship, cavemen, family relations, family life, silly humor, friends ...
Time:
stone age, prehistoric times, prehistory, prehistoric
Place:
manchester england, manchester
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, epic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, time travel, adventure, post apocalypse, survival, danger, sent to the past, dangerous animal, experiment, fate of humanity, changing the past or future, imaginary ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, 22nd century
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Ever since the world was born, two forces have been locked in perpetual battle. Their struggle is so Manichean, so ferocious, so Herculean that it makes the clash between good and evil look like a game of checkers! This ancestral duel is so ancient ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, exciting, anthology, light ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
rivalry, chase, chases and races, escapades, family, silly humor, cat, caveman, outer space, surrealism, duel, sword duel ...
Time:
future, prehistory, 19th century, prehistoric times, 20th century ...
Place:
london, big ben london
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ishbo is a caveman living in the prehistoric age who thinks there's more to life than hunting and gathering. He tries to better the lives of those in his tribe by inventing things like spoons and the toothbrush, which leave everyone, including ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, not serious, light, captivating
Audience:
date night
Plot:
caveman, nothing goes right, rivalry, ambition, goofy hero, social misfits, unfulfilled love, disorder, society, misfit, underdog, father son relationship ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times
Is relevant ?
54K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a hunting expedition goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, exciting, sincere, suspenseful ...
Plot:
wolf, wilderness, survival, caveman, human animal relationship, dog, animal attack, cavemen, injury, snow, ice age, killing an animal ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory
Place:
europe
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A caveman forms a bond with a dinosaur as they struggle to survive in a hostile world.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, tense, captivating, bloody
Plot:
caveman, dinosaur, survival, 2d animation, barbarian, hunter, violent, violence, danger, fantasy world, adventure, deadly ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistoric, prehistory
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