If you’re looking for a dinosaur show to watch, here’s a list to get you started (in no particular order).

1. 32 DINOSAUR MOVIES,
DOCUMENTARIES, AND TV
SHOWS TO ENJOY WITH
FRIENDS

2. Over the past year or so, we’ve been able to host watch parties and enjoy
dinosaur movies, documentaries, and TV shows with patrons of our podcast.
Some were better than others, some were nostalgic, and all were fun to
watch with fellow dinosaur enthusiasts.
If you’re looking for a dinosaur show to watch, here’s a list to get you started
(in no particular order).
And after, if you’re looking to learn even more about dinosaurs, check out
all the episodes of the I Know Dino podcast (iknowdino.com).

3. DINOSAUR MOVIES

4. JURASSIC PARK
Of course, we did have to start with the Jurassic Park and
Jurassic World franchise. Rexy!
“Hold onto your butts.”

5. THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC
PARK
Because you need to find out what happened on Jurassic Park
Site B island.

6. JURASSIC PARK III
Watch out for raptors. And Spinosaurus. And pteranodons.

7. JURASSIC WORLD
Where we learn a lot more about Dr. Henry Wu.

8. JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN
KINGDOM
Where we get back to horror and suspense with the dinosaurs.

9. JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION
We can’t wait to watch this one when it comes out in 2022.

10. GERTIE THE DINOSAUR
A 1914 animated short film, and the first animated film to
feature a dinosaur. Gertie was part of Windsor McCay’s
vaudeville act, where she performs tricks.

11. THE LOST WORLD (1925)
A silent film about explorers of a lost world. Features stop-
motion by Willis O’Brien of Allosaurus, Trachodon, Triceratops,
and more. (Unfortunately, the people haven’t all aged as well
as the dinosaurs, as there is a character in blackface.)

12. KING KONG (1933)
Yes, Kong is the star but you can also see stop-motion by Willis
O’Brien of Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus, and T. rex.

13. ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.
An adventure fantasy film where you can also see Allosaurus,
Ceratosaurus, and Triceratops.

14. THE VALLEY OF GWANGI
A cowboy tries to capture an Allosaurus. Chaos ensues.

15. THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT
A fantasy adventure film based on a 1918 novel. During WWI a
British crew end up on an uncharted subcontinent, where they
confront dinosaurs.

16. CAVEMAN
A slapstick comedy starring Ringo Starr, with lots of stop-motion
dinosaurs, including T. rex.

17. BABY: SECRET OF THE LOST
LEGEND
A paleontologist and her husband try to protect a baby
sauropod and its parents.

18. ADVENTURES IN DINOSAUR CITY
Teenagers get sucked in to their favorite TV show, and they
encounter dinosaurs such as T. rex and Triceratops.

19. WE’RE BACK! A DINOSAUR’S
STORY
An animated film about four intelligent prehistoric animals: a
T. rex, Triceratops, Pterodactyl, and Parasaurolophus.

20. DINOSAUR
Disney’s Dinosaur, a film about a young Iguanodon adopted
by a family of lemurs, and their journey with other dinosaurs to
the “Nesting Grounds.” The realistic animation still looks great.

21. THE GOOD DINOSAUR
An animated film about the sauropod Arlo and his friend Henry.

22. THE VELOCIPASTOR
A priest travels to China and is able to turn into a Velociraptor
when angry.

23. DINOSAUR DOCUMENTARIES

24. DINOSAUR!
Hosted by Christopher Reeve, and features the
paleontologists Jack Horner, Robert Bakker, Phil Currie, and
Dale Russell. Dinosaurs include hadrosaurs, Struthiomimus,
Deinonychus, T. rex, Brontosaurus, and Monoclonius.

25. WALKING WITH DINOSAURS
A six-part nature documentary series, featuring Coelophysis,
Diplodocus, Leaellynasaura, Tyrannosaurus, and more.

26. ALLOSAURUS: WALKING WITH
DINOSAURS
All about poor Al, the adolescent Allosaurus who led a rough life.

27. WHEN DINOSAURS ROAMED
AMERICA
Stories of dinosaurs throughout the Triassic, Jurassic, and
Cretaceous, told in a nature documentary style.

28. DINOSAUR PLANET
A recreation of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs, with paleontologist
Scott Sampson explaining the scientific discoveries behind the
story.

29. PREHISTORIC PARK
A mini series where Nigel Marven travels back in time to collect
dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals for the wildlife park
Prehistoric Park.

30. DINOSAURS ALIVE!
An IMAX documentary about dinosaurs from the Triassic in New
Mexico, the Cretaceous in Mongolia, and research from the
American Museum of Natural History.

31. PLANET DINOSAUR
A mini series where “John Hurt narrates the gory, bleak stories of the
brutal relationship between the ancient apex predators and their
gigantic herbivorous prey.”

32. FOLLOW THE BONES
“Follow the Bones is 45 minute documentary film about a high
school science teacher who stumbled upon a massive, life-
changing fossil site while on a picnic on labour day weekend
in 1971. It’s a story about collaboration between amateur
rock hounds & fossil enthusiasts, and world-famous
palaeontologists.”

33. THE STORY OF SCOTTY THE T. REX
“In 2019, Scotty was proclaimed the biggest in the world.
Believed to be a female, she measured over 13 m or just over
42.6 feet long with a weight of over 8.8 metric tons.
Discovered in the dinosaur rich Frenchman Formation, Scotty’s
bones have been carefully preserved and are stored at the
T.rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, Saskatchewan.”

34. DINOSAUR TV SHOWS

35. DINOSAURS
Not the mama! Not the mama!

36. DINOTOPIA
A miniseries based on the books,
featuring Ankylosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Chasmosaurus,
Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus, T. rex, Triceratops, and
more

37. JURASSIC WORLD: CAMP
CRETACEOUS
An animated series about a group of teenagers who get
stranded on the island, around the same time as the events of
Jurassic World.