Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "extinct-species"

1. Ice Age (2002)

PG | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The story revolves around sub-zero heroes: a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat, known as Scrat.

Directors: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Goran Visnjic

Votes: 519,319 | Gross: $176.39M

2. Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

PG | 91 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Manny, Sid and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny is not in fact the last of the woolly mammoths.

Director: Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott

Votes: 296,676 | Gross: $195.33M

3. Prehistoric Planet (2022–2023)

TV-PG | 203 min | Documentary, Animation, History

Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.

Star: David Attenborough

Votes: 10,679

4. The Hunter (IV) (2011)

R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.

Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgan Davies, Jacek Koman

Votes: 41,164 | Gross: $0.18M

5. Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)

Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Japan creates an artificial black hole device to trap Godzilla forever, but a test of the device creates new foes for Godzilla, car-sized dragonflies called meganula and their queen, Megaguirus.

Directors: Masaaki Tezuka, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Misato Tanaka, Shôsuke Tanihara, Masatô Ibu, Yuriko Hoshi

Votes: 4,618

6. The Devil, Probably (1977)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano

Votes: 4,734 | Gross: $0.03M

7. Carnifex (2022)

93 min | Horror, Thriller

An aspiring documentarian and two conservationists who venture into the Outback to record the animals displaced by bushfires where they discover a terrifying new species.

Director: Sean Lahiff | Stars: Alexandra Park, Sisi Stringer, Harry Greenwood, Darren Gilshenan

Votes: 1,025

8. Animal Armageddon (2009– )

45 min | Documentary, History

This documentary series explores the causes behind six major extinction events in Earth's history. It also speculates on the next such event.

Stars: Peter Ward, Michael Carroll, Craig Chesner, Mathew Wedel

Votes: 215

9. Sea of Hope: America's Underwater Treasures (2017 TV Movie)

48 min | Documentary

Oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry, Author & Historian Maxwell Kennedy take a team of young environmentalists around America's Ocean hotspots to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Nixon

Votes: 74

10. Waking the Baby Mammoth (2009 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

The discovery of a rare, well-preserve, juvenile, woolly mammoth provides an unparalleled opportunity to learn about this extinct species. National Geographic rides along as the full ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Stine | Stars: Elena Baranova, Bernard Buigues, Victor Garber, H. Richard Greene

Votes: 35

11. No Man's Valley (1981 TV Movie)

30 min | Animation, Family

Elliot, a rare California condor, must find a hideaway for endangered animals before man drives them over the brink into extinction.

Directors: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman | Stars: Henry Corden, Frank Buxton, Art Metrano, Hal Smith

Votes: 22

12. Enigma Man a Stone Age Mystery (2014 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary

A team of Australian and Chinese scientists discover ancient human remains in a remote cave in South West China. The bones are unlike any living human or any ancient human known to science,... See full summary »

Director: Daniella Ortega | Stars: Biman Wimalaratne, Niyat Berhan, Alice Keohavong, Craig Menaud

Votes: 49

13. Songbird (2018 Video)

10 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

Songbird is a fairytale with a dark heart. You will be transported to the island of Kauai in 1984. Here, you are invited to search for the last known 'o'o, an iconic black bird with yellow ... See full summary »

Director: Lucy Greenwell | Stars: Siân Phillips, Jim Jacobi

14. Nous resterons sur Terre (2009)

87 min | Documentary

Urban sprawl, extinct species, depletion of natural resources and global warming are all causes of deep anxiety. "Here to Stay" takes an uncompromising look at Planet Earth today.

Directors: Pierre Barougier, Olivier Bourgeois | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, James Lovelock, Wangari Maathai, Edgar Morin

Votes: 42

15. Belly Up: Salmon in Peril (2009)

22 min | Documentary, Short, History

Belly Up gives voice to three First Nation hereditary chiefs and other people from the community on what salmon extinction would mean to their culture. Increasingly, the unsustainable ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Deiters

16. ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode: The Bollo Caper (1985)

TV-Y | 25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Bollo, a leopard brought to New York to be made into a fur coat, manages to escape to Washington to try to get Congress to declare him an endangered species.

Director: Rick Reinert | Stars: Michael Bell, Ilene Latter, Hal Smith, Will Ryan

Votes: 24

17. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: The Night of the Setting Sun (1998)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

While investigating the resurgence of an old flu strain that resembles the Spanish Flu, the team finds a reclusive family of drifters in hiding, who all look like they came straight out of the 1910s, and may or may not be vampires.

Director: E. Jane Thompson | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 16

18. Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006)
Episode: Seeds of Time (2006)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The house of a respected, long-dead botanist becomes sought after because it's believed to contain seeds of a now-extinct plant that may offer a cure for malaria.

Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Margaret Tyzack, Lucy Scott

Votes: 192

19. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: The Slaver Weapon (1973)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Spock, Uhura and Sulu discover an ancient multi-use weapon and are captured by the Kzinti who are equally interested in it.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 780

20. Science! (2019)
Episode: Making a Birderer (2019)

Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

At the request of a group of wealthy conservationists, Dr. Moog has resurrected an extinct species of birds.

Director: Neal Holman | Stars: Cree Summer, Betsy Sodaro, Jeremy Bent, Hollie Harper

21. Blake et Mortimer (1997)
Episode: Le piège diabolique (1997)

Animation, Adventure, Crime

Mortimer inherits the castle of his former adversary Professor Miloch. Curious as ever, he tries the machine he finds there and instantly arrives - In the prehistoric era.

Directors: Yannick Barbaud, Stéphane Bernasconi | Stars: Yves Barsacq, Pierre Baton, Patrice Baudrier, Hervé Bellon

Votes: 25

22. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Bone Diggers (2007)

TV-PG | Documentary

Nova follows the excavation of a paleontologist's gold mine, an Australian cave containing fossils of eight new species of kangaroo, and the ultimate prize, a complete skeleton of the ... See full summary »

Directors: Carolyn Bertram, Clay Bryce, Ingo Helbig, Stuart Scowcroft | Stars: Gavin Prideaux, Neil Ross

Votes: 20

23. Ecotasia (2014– )
Episode: How to Bring Back an Extinct Species: De-extinction is Already Happening (2021)

9 min | Documentary

Biologist are making progress bringing back extinct species. Surrogate mothers have given birth to extinct animals though, so far, their life spans has been brief. There could be some ... See full summary »

Star: John Jackson

24. Nature (1982– )
Episode: Dogs in the Wild: Defending Wild Dogs (2023)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Family

Join scientists as they go to extraordinary lengths to understand wild dogs.

Director: Tessa Worgan | Stars: Nyambi Nyambi, Cole Du Plessis, Hila Shamon, Kimberley Todd

Votes: 9

25. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures (2013)

TV-G | 54 min | Documentary

The Paleogene opens with the dinosaurs extinct and much of the world's water freezing out in Antarctica as Australia breaks free of Gondwana to chart it's own course. As in the rest of the ... See full summary »

Stars: Mike Archer, Tim Flannery, Neil Hewett, Gavin Prideaux

Votes: 67

26. Planet Earth II (2016)
Episode: Islands (2016)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary

Wildlife documentary series with David Attenborough, beginning with a look at the remote islands which offer sanctuary to some of the planet's rarest creatures.

Director: Elizabeth White | Stars: David Attenborough, Pete McCowen, Jerome Poncet, Elizabeth White

Votes: 5,065