The official trailer and key art for Netflix’s The Dinosaurs just debuted, and this looks like a full-scale prehistoric event. The four-part documentary series is narrated by Morgan Freeman and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The Dinosaurs promises a sweeping ride through the rise and fall of the dinosaurs across hundreds of millions of years.
Spielberg’s Next Big-Scale Documentary Swing
From Amblin Documentaries and the award-winning team behind Life on Our Planet, The Dinosaurs is built like prestige TV with blockbuster ambition.
This is not a quick tour of famous fossils. It is framed as an epic journey into a lost world, with each episode designed to feel huge, immersive, and cinematic.
Morgan Freeman as Your Guide Through the Lost World of The Dinosaurs
There is something instantly reassuring about Freeman’s narration in a series like this. His voice brings gravity to the big evolutionary swings, but also that calm, storybook pull that makes you want to lean in.
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For a show spanning mass extinctions, ancient oceans, and world-changing shifts in life on Earth, that tone matters.
Four Feature-Length Episodes With ILM Power
The Dinosaurs runs four 60-minute episodes, with visual effects and animation handled by Industrial Light and Magic. That is the kind of VFX pedigree that can sell scale, weight, and realism, especially when the story demands everything from intimate survival moments to cataclysmic turning points.
Add an original score by Lorne Balfe, and you have the ingredients for a series that is meant to feel loud on a big screen and rich on good headphones.
March 6 Is About to Belong to The Dinosaurs
The Dinosaurs premieres March 6, 2026, and it is positioned as a major documentary drop, not background viewing. With showrunners Dan Tapster, Keith Scholey, and Alastair Fothergill, plus series director Nick Shoolingin-Jordan, this is a stacked team aiming for that rare mix of awe, emotion, and pure “how is this real” spectacle.
factual error: Paleontologist Thomas Holtz, who was an uncredited consultant on the show who helped design the Spinosaurus, criticized the series for giving the same theropod-like feet to all bipedal dinosaurs. In reality, the feet of bipedal herbivores were wider and shorter.
factual error: Several dinosaurs and related animals are shown with four or five claws on the front feet but most dinosaurs only had claws on the three inner digits, stegosaurs only had two, most sauropods only had one and titanosaur sauropods had none. The fourth and fifth digits lacked claws on all dinosaurs, which is also seen on modern crocodiles.
factual error: Ankylosaurus is incorrectly animated with a fully flexible tail. The real animal had bone rods stiffening the end of its tail, so only half of the tail would have been able to bend, the rest was rigid.
revealing mistake: At times when armored ankylosaurs move their neck or nostrils, the armor on their skin bends and stretches.
anachronism: The Hateg island scene is set in the mid Cretaceous, around 98 million years ago, but the depicted animals actually lived at the end of the Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago.
Are you watching The Dinosaurs the day it premieres on March 6, 2026? Which era do you hope the series spends the most time exploring? What dinosaur are you most excited to see brought to life? Drop your thoughts in the comments or @me.
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