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Chronological List of Dinosaur Movies
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.DirectorsEric LeightonRalph ZondagStarsD.B. SweeneyJulianna MarguliesSamuel E. Wright ... A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.DirectorRick StevensonStarsWendy AndersonRussell BadgerAlan Bratt ... More than 80 ...
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October 14, 2023 - I used to be obsessed with the Land Before Time movies when I was little. Not the first one as much, mainly the sequels. Dinosaur TV show · r/nostalgia • · upvotes · · comments · Spanish Romantic Songs from the 80's & 90's · ...
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story identification - 70's/80's Sci-fi TV movie with people exploring an island and being attacked by an extremely large monster/dinosaur - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange
The movie has a group of people who either were exploring an island or another mysterious continent. At a point in the movie, I think their ship was damaged or was thrown around by either an extre... More on scifi.stackexchange.com
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story identification - '80s anime where a boy is transported back in time to the Jurassic era, and a T-Rex is speared to death by a tribe - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange
I'm looking for an old anime I used to watch as a kid, for which I have only some glimpses of the story. It was probably made during the '80s, and I remember a black-haired, black-dressed boy as a More on scifi.stackexchange.com
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Old School Dinosaur Movies | The (old) Dinosaur Toy Forum: Version 1 Archive
Im surprised this hasnt been made into a thread yet, but what are your favorite "old school" dinosaur movies? The 2 that stand out in my mind as favorites are "One Million Years BC" (Ray Harryhousen More on dinotoyforum.proboards.com
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Wikipedia
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List of films featuring dinosaurs - Wikipedia
September 15, 2025 - This is a list of films that feature non-avian dinosaurs and other prehistoric (mainly Mesozoic) archosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. Three long film series are centered around dinosaurs: Godzilla (dinosaur-inspired), Jurassic Park and The Land Before Time.
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Forgotten Dinosaur Movies From The 90’s That Need A Reboot | BEYONDbones
June 22, 2018 - We’re Back is the forgotten step sibling to The Land Before Time. Stephen Spielberg executive produced both films, both films were scored by James Horner (a 90’s standby, he also scored Titanic and a number of Disney animated films) and ...
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Remind Magazine
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Old-School Dinosaur Movies That Time May Have Forgotten — But I Sure Haven't
June 1, 2023 - Dinosaurs and related prehistoric creatures feature at least in bit parts in many films that I loved then and still love now, and I always got excited to see them in even cameo appearances — like the T. rex, Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus and Pteranodon in King Kong (1933), and even that quick-but-shocking appearance of the Brontosaurus in the “Odyssey of Flight 33” episode of The Twilight Zone — but I’m going to focus on movies in which dinosaurs were the main attraction. ... Happy 90th anniversary to the film that introduced cinema's greatest ape!
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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991) ⭐ 4.8 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
February 12, 1992 - Although, as the other comment (yes, there is only one) for this movie says, it is horridly bad, I find it very entertaining. As one of the things I have accidentally taped from TV from letting the VCR record too long, I watch it now and then. Someone put some amount of effort into making this, why not enjoy the result? ... Aired commonly on the Disney Channel back in the '90s.
Release date   Feb 12, 1992
Duration   01:28:00
Rating: 4.8/10 ​ - ​ 1.34K votes
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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985) ⭐ 5.1 | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
March 22, 1985 - Don't take this film too seriously. Just relax and enjoy this movie with your kids! The plot: Newly wed scientists find dinosaurs alive and well in Africa. But of course there's an evil scientist Patrick McGoohan (Number 6) whom want to kill the dinosaurs and everyone who knows about them.
Release date   Mar 22, 1985
Duration   01:35:00
Rating: 5.1/10 ​ - ​ 3.7K votes
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Answered: Title help: 80s or 90s movie about dinosaur world - Movie Forums
April 8, 2009 - It was either from the late 80s or early 90s, I can't remember which. It started with this suburban family, and the parents were scientists. They had a lab in the basement, and created some kind of portal that the kids eventually went through when they were playing around. They ended up in a world of anthropomorphic talking dinosaurs...
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Dinosaur (1980 film) - Wikipedia
May 6, 2025 - Dinosaur is an animated short film directed and produced by Will Vinton. In 1987, the film was extended and released on video under the title Dinosaurs!. The new footage stars Fred Savage playing a grade school student named Philip who gives ...
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Dinosaur, Alien movie from the early 80s - horrormovie dinosaurs aliens | Ask MetaFilter
February 24, 2006 - 70/80s sci-fi/horror movie filter: Does anyone remember a movie that was broadcast on network television in the very early 80s that involved claymation dinosaurs attacking a house and aliens that...
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What was the name of the 1980s SF TV show which featured dinosaurs and frogmen as baddies? - Quora
Answer (1 of 2): Are you thinking of 1974–1976 Land of the Lost? It’s a Sid and Marty Croft show about the Marshall family, much on the same lines as the Swiss Family Robinson, only with a prehistoric theme in the strange alternate dimension ...
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I think the movie is the 1977 USA/Japanese co-production The Last Dinosaur. Rankin and Bass (of Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer fame) financed it. Your description of the ship matches well the Polar-Borer that takes the explorers through the Earth's crust to a prehistoric land in the Artic. Did the ship look like the one in the pictures below? The dinosaur does attack their ship at the beach and carries it away in its mouth, stranding them on the island.

The Last Dinosaur is a color movie. The effects are very much in the Toho style. The T-Rex is a very unconvincing man-in-a-suit. That is why you may associate the dinosaur with Godzilla. The movie never played in movie theaters in the states. I remember watching it repeatedly on network and local television in the late '70's and early '80's. It has a largely American cast, so the lead actors speak their own lines without dubbing.

Richard Boone stars as an oil tycoon (and big game hunter) who finances a scientific expedition to explore a recently discovered prehistoric land at the North Pole. A very active volcano has kept the area a tropical paradise for millennia and it is inhabited by prehistoric creatures and cave people. Both attack the expedition. Boone becomes increasingly more savage and threatens the other team members. All he wants to do is hunt and kill the last T-Rex on Earth, while the others want to recover their ship and escape. Joan Van Arc (from television's Knots Landing) plays the lead scientist.

The original, un-edited cut of the movie has been released on DVD. I found two good reviews of those DVDs here and here.

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This is Age of the Great Dinosaurs (1979).

From TV Tropes:

Daikyouryu no Jidai (Age of the Great Dinosaurs in Japanese) is a rather obscure fantasy/adventure anime film distributed by Ishimori Productions and Toei Animation. Directed by Shotaro Ishinomori and Hideki Takayama, it was released in 1979, and narrates the story of a trio of kids (Jun, Remi and her little brother Chobi) from modernized Japan who still treat nature with respect and conscience, unlike many other humans who pollute Earth and damage the planet a lot every day.

One fateful night they are summoned by an unknown alien intelligence who tells them that mankind is losing its empathy, and, to teach them a lesson about life, death, and the fall of species, said alien intelligence transports the kids to Earth's past and leaves them right in the Mesozoic era, the time when dinosaurs were the supreme rulers of the Earth. Here, the trio has a series of adventures and misadventures, like befriending a baby Triceratops, trying to escape from a dangerous Tyrannosaurus rex, witnessing the Cretaceous extinction and rise of the mammals, and discovering why it is important for humans to protect Earth before it's too late.

As mentioned above, the film is very poorly-known, and only a few home releases are known. It can be watched for free online, but is usually found in a foreign language, like Spanish.

Alas, Poor Villain: The Tyrannosaurus eventually gets speared to death by the Neanderthals, though this becomes sorrowful considering it's the Last of Its Kind.

The main male protagonist has dark hair and wears a dark blue top, similar to your description. And you can view the T-Rex being killed by numerous hurled spears right around the 1:01:35 mark in the video below.

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Proboards
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Old School Dinosaur Movies | The (old) Dinosaur Toy Forum: Version 1 Archive
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YouTube
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Dinosaurs EVERY Film 1914-1980+ - YouTube
All the dinosaur films I can find on YT (especially live-action ones) in order of production from 1914 to 1980. (At least, all the "legal" and free ones.) Pl...
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World of Reel
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David Robert Mitchell’s ‘80s-Set Dinosaur Movie to Be Shot in IMAX, Described as a “Thrill Ride” With $80 Million Budget — World of Reel
February 13, 2024 - This year’s 12th edition of the ... that David Robert Mitchell’s ‘80s-set dinosaur movie, potentially titled “Flowervale Street,” was going to start production in March....