The Dinosaurs

The Dinosaurs reunites executive producer Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment with Silverback Films and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) — who previously collaborated on Life on Our Planet — to bring the age of dinosaurs to life with cutting-edge visual effects.

About 235 million years ago, on the sun-blasted supercontinent of Pangaea, a tiny, fleet‑footed creature known as Marasuchus emerged from its egg. Standing on two legs, with advanced lungs, light bones, and warm blood, this unassuming animal carried the blueprint for a lineage that would become nature’s greatest empire: the dinosaurs, who held dominion over Earth for 150 million years.

Now, from executive producer Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment, in collaboration with the creators of Our Planet, comes a four-episode documentary series charting the rise and fall of the dinosaurs — where they came from, why they mattered, how they evolved, and how they met their ultimate fate.

The Dinosaurs builds on the groundwork laid in Life on Our Planet, which blends nature cinematography with photorealistic visual effects to tell the history of life on Earth from 4 billion years ago to present day. Showrunner Dan Tapster, who also worked on Life on Our Planet, saw the new series as an opportunity to go deeper and finally give the dinosaur story the space and scale it deserved.