Walking with Beasts

7.7IMDb Score
Released:2001-11-15
Duration:30180 min
Country:
Director:Nigel Paterson, Jasper James
Actors:Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing
Production:BBC

Overview:

Walking With Prehistoric Beasts explores how life on earth first began. Using real footage, the series goes inside the body of our monster ancestors. For the first time, morphing technology is used to reveal how our ancestors evolved.

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