The Ballad of Big Al (2000)

Original title

Big Al

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

29 min

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary special reconstructs the life of a single allosaurus dinosaur based on its fossil remains. It follows the animal from hatching to death in the Late Jurassic period.

educationalatmosphericmeditativecalmobservationalnaturalisticsweepingancient

What happens

The Ballad of Big Al, marketed as Allosaurus in North America, is a 2000 special episode of the nature documentary television series Walking with Dinosaurs. The Ballad of Big Al is set in the Late Jurassic, 145 million years ago, and follows a single Allosaurus specimen nicknamed "Big Al" whose life story has been reconstructed based on a well-preserved fossil of the same name. The Ballad of Big Al was like the other episodes of Walking with Dinosaurs made by Impossible Pictures and was produced by the BBC Studios Science Unit, the Discovery Channel, ProSieben and TV Asahi. The episode was aired together with a 30-minute behind-the-scenes episode, Big Al Uncovered. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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