Dinosaur Documentaries Kids Will Surely Enjoy

Who would ever forget Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park made into film by Steven Speilberg? It tells the story of genetically engineered dinosaurs placed on an island in South America called Jurassic Park. For some reason, the dinosaurs went wild and wrecked havoc on the island. The popularity of the film may be attributed to our fascination about dinosaurs, those reptiles that dominated the Earth many million years ago. In fact, many Dinosaur Documentaries have been filmed even before and many more after Jurassic Park. Aside from the documentaries on TV, there are also available films on DVD, which can be great educational tools that both kids and adults would definitely enjoy.

There are documentaries made for kids so that early on in their lives, they will be well aware of the many amazing things about dinosaurs. If you are looking for Best Dinosaur Documentaries, you can check out different video stores whether locally or over the Internet. Look for the Ultimate Dinosaur Collection released by BBC Video in 2007, which features three discs containing videos titled "Before the Dinosaurs: Walking with Monsters," "Walking with Dinosaurs," "Allosaurs," "Chased by Dinosaurs," and "Trilogy of Life: The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs, Beasts, and Monsters." Meanwhile, Discovery Channel's Discovery Essential Dinosaur Pack, released in 2008, contains seven of the most popular dinosaur documentaries of the said channel. Both documentaries use computer-generated animation to depict dinosaurs. You may also want to check out Prehistoric Earth: Natural History, released in 2008 by BBC Video, another popular and well-reviewed dinosaur documentary.

For a selection of more kid-friendly videos, meaning for younger audience, check out Sesame Street: Dinosaurs!, and National Geographic: Really Wild Animals. Elmo and other popular characters in Sesame Street explore the dinosaur world. In the National Geographic video, aside from dinosaurs, creepy crawlers, bats, and insects are also explored. It is very entertaining to watch the video because it is accompanied by rock music and uses a lot of humor to remove the scary aspect of dinosaurs. If you are searching for good sources of information about dinosaurs, supplement your encyclopedias and books with these documentaries. Parents are however advised to read reviews first because there are videos that are not very accurate when depicting the dinosaurs, there are also videos that may be too complicated for children to understand. Make sure that the documentaries that you will get for your kids are appropriate for their ages so that they can easily understand their contents.

John is a Civil Engineer for the State of Connecticut, an avid Dinosaur enthusiast, and currently has a blog at dinosaur-documentaries.com.