Summary

There are many great moving picture mark in prehistoric times , all exploring fascinating elements from the other sidereal day of human organic evolution to the first early manpower . However , flick may not be the good origin for accurate depicting of prehistorical time . On - screen , prehistoric life is often depicted with a comedic angle . Some even choose to focus on sensational aspects like encounters with dinosaur , as seen inOne Million Years B.C. , despite these creatures having been extinct long before the first humans .

These prehistoric options often offer worthful comment on present - day issue and pop culture . For representative , Early Manuses Bronze Age caper to mirror the historical underachievement of the English interior football team . Stanley Kubrick ’s fantastic epic2001 : A Space Odysseyexplores human evolution and the significant stride humanity has made over time by contrasting the cock of prehistorical apes to human achievements in space . These films and others essay that despite humanity ’s huge changes in environment and technology , many human concerns and behaviors remain unremitting through the ages .

10Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)

Director: Michael Chapman

The Clan of the Cave Bearisa motion picture that explores the dawn of humanness , paralleling modern issue , such as modern patriarchal social organisation , with the struggles of prehistoric life . The moving-picture show follows a young Cro - Magnon , Ayla , orphan and injured , who is reluctantly dramatise by a Neanderthal kin . Struggling with cultural deviation and face up hardships , she defy norms , becomes a skilled therapist and hunter , and finally leaves the tribe , seek for her own the great unwashed with her Logos . Unfortunately , The Clan of the Cave Bearfails to authentically portray the coarse reality of the time period , too heavily leaning on a modern lens .

Stream on Apple TV .

9Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey (2016)

Director: Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick’sVoyage of Timeis a 2016 documentary and a optic geographic expedition of the universe ’s creation . Available in two versions , a 90 - second cut narrated by Cate Blanchett and a little IMAX adaptation with Brad Pitt , it aims to chronicle the Earth ’s scientific account . Malick ’s film , devoid of worker and minimum human comportment , presents a stunning regalia of epitome from cosmic vistas to microscopic inside information , blending natural footage and CGI . However , the motion picture is more of an abstract , esthetical experience than an educational infotainment .

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8The Good Dinosaur (2015)

Director: Peter Sohn

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The Good Dinosaurisset in an alternate world where dinosaurs never go nonextant and coexist with humans , follow a dinosaur family running a farm and a young brontosaurus , Arlo , who befriends a man . The Good Dinosaurisa love varsity letter to Hollywood ’s Golden Age , direct to capture the talkative landscape and a frontier flavour prevalent in many Hellenic western . Despite some visually sensational scenes , the picture show skin with a want of originality , borrowing constituent from definitive tales likeThe Jungle BookandThe Lion King .

Stream on Disney+ .

7Quest for Fire (1981)

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean - Jacques Annaud’sQuest for Fireis a timeless epic . This historical drama go around around three Cro - Magnon kindred appendage on a cross - country journey to find fire after theirs is wipe out . The film focalise onone of the most pivotal moments in human civilization , the pursuit to contain fire . Impressively , Quest for Fireinvolves an invented naive voice communication created by novelist Anthony Burgess . Quest for Fireis one ofJean - Jacques Annaud ’s best motion picture . It gain ground Best Picture at the Cesar Awards , France ’s combining weight of the Oscars , and also secured an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Makeup .

6Iceman (2017)

Director: Felix Randau

Felix Randau ’s dramaIcemanimaginatively remodel the lifespan and death of a 5,000 - year - old man found in the Austrian Alps , preserved in ice . It follows the iceman , played by Jürgen Vogel , who , after discover his settlement waste by marauder , embarks on a revenge quest with a new-sprung infant and a nanny goat . The film does a great caper impersonate the brutality of the surround , the world , and the act of revenge . It ’s cognate to a revenge westerly set in prehistoric meter . imposingly , the pic has a belittled amount of dialogue in a reconstructed Rhaetian language , developed specifically for the movie by a linguist .

flow on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video .

5Early Man (2018)

Director: Nick Park

Early Man , an animation by Aardman Animations , brings drollery to prehistoric times . The film playfully conceive of a clash between simple hunter - gatherers and modern Bronze Age humans , with association football replacing warfare . Set near Manchester , the film ’s protagonist , Dug , and his tribe face displacement by the bronze - love Lord Nooth . Using association football as their field of battle , Dug and his friend challenge Nooth ’s squad to salve their vale . The cinema is full of clever jape and slapstick moments , and in a humorous tribute , Early Man ’s post - credit scenepays court toOne Million Years B.C.

Stream on Amazon Prime Video and Netflix .

4Ice Age (2002)

Director: Chris Wedge

Ice Ageis a family - friendly animated motion-picture show from 2002 . Set during a neat trash age , the story follow a woolly mammoth , a sabertooth Panthera tigris , and a tree sloth who team up to give a human babe to its parents . Traveling across the prehistoric frozen landscape , the unexpected journey fosters a unique friendly relationship among the unlikely gang . chicken feed Agefeatures impressive brio , humor , and a touching tale about unbelievable bond . Notably , a subplot involving a squirrel ’s acorn battle tally even more delicious humor to the photographic film .

3Three Ages (1923)

Directors: Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton ’s 1923 filmThree Ageswas his first full - length feature of speech as author , manufacturer , director , and principal . The photographic film , a parody of D.W. Griffith’sIntolerance , cleverly interweaves three stories set in dissimilar historical earned run average , with Keaton competing against Wallace Beery for the same girl , Margaret Leahy . far-famed for its inventive pseudo - historical details and daring stunts , Three Ageswas well - get for its humor and creativity . The film include standout , absurd gags like a cave man using a rock as a baseballor a sled force by dogs in a chariot airstream .

2One Million Years B.C. (1966)

Director: Don Chaffey

The 1966 filmOne Million Years B.C. , a remake of the 1940 movie , entirely disregards the 65 - million - class separation and brings dinosaur and humans together . It follows Tumak and Loana , dally by John Richardson and Hollywood star Raquel Welch , through their journeying in a prehistorical earth . The motion picture features Ray Harryhausen ’s renowned stop - motion dinosaurs , with one of the film ’s most famed and iconic view being a conflict between a Ceratosaurus and a Triceratops . Moreover , Welch ’s iconic fur two-piece became a symbolic representation of the era .

12001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick’s2001 : A Space Odyssey , one of the most famous movies of all time , isa visually stunning and prophetical masterpiece exploring infinite travel and human evolution . The film blend prehistorical living with outer space , notably inKubrick ’s 25 - minute opening section in2001 , where apes , drive from their watering hole by competition , encounter a monolith . This section culminates in movie theatre ’s most famous cut : a bone transforming into a spaceship , brilliantly leaping jillion of eld in a undivided shot and stand for the break of the day of humankind .

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Clan of the Cave Bear

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Cavemen holding sticks in Quest for Fire

Iceman (2017)

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The Ice Age characters walking together in the snow

Three Ages (1923)

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