Walking with Beasts 1-Disc Box Set DVD

Walking with Beasts is the 2001 BBC and Discovery Channel CGI documentary series that follows the rise of mammals across the 65 million years after the dinosaurs went extinct, using the same photorealistic CGI-creature techniques the production team had developed for the earlier Walking with Dinosaurs. The series ran across BBC and Discovery Channel through 2001, with 6 self-contained episodes that each cover a different prehistoric era and the apex creatures of that period.

What stands out is the show's commitment to the docudrama register. Each episode is shot like a wildlife documentary, with sweeping camera work, full ambient sound design, and a steady narrator following specific animal characters through their lives, but the creatures on screen are entirely CGI mammals, marsupials, and ancestral primates rendered against real natural locations. The result is a hybrid that treats prehistory as if it were filmable.

It belongs to a specific early-2000s BBC and Discovery Channel wave of CGI prehistoric documentary, the same family of carefully-produced co-productions that defined how science television presented deep time during that period. For viewers whose first exposure to the post-dinosaur era of mammalian evolution came through this series, Walking with Beasts is the version that built the memory.

Highlights in the set include "New Dawn," "Whale Killer," "Land Of Giants," "Next Of Kin," "Sabre Tooth," and "Mammoth Journey," the complete six-episode run from the early-mammal era through to the woolly mammoth. This 1-DVD collection gathers all 6 episodes, the complete Walking with Beasts series in one place.