Dinosaurs Alive

This large-format documentary narrated by Michael Douglas simultaneously follows three fossil-collecting expeditions and showcases scientifically-vetted CGI recreations of dinosaurs and dinosaur-like creatures. The two traditional expeditions take paleontologists and graduate students to Mongolia's Gobi Desert — where pioneering dinosaur hunter and all-around scientific adventurer Roy Chapman Andrews (thought to have been the inspiration for Indiana Jones) discovered a mother lode of fossil remains in the 1920s — and to New Mexico's Ghost Ranch area, whose striated cliffs contain fossils that dramatically illustrate the evolution of ancient life from the Tr...