16 of the Best Movies and Documentaries About Dinosaurs

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Gentle giants, cuddly friends, vicious monsters, deadly dragons: Even the earliest film depictions of dinosaurs evidence our complicated relationship with Earth’s prehistoric thunder lizards. Windsor McCay’s puckish Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) might be stubborn, but she’s unlikely to eat you, and might even dance if you ask politely.

D.W. Griffith’s Brute Force, also from 1914, doesn’t bother with the distinction between the age of the...