Why Dinosaurs?
2025
1 hr 17 min
English
A documentary about dinosaurs and the people who love them, created by a father and son.
A dinosaur-obsessed teen and his filmmaker father travel the world interviewing paleontologists about the latest discoveries, tracking down the crew of Jurassic Park, digging up 150-million-year-old bones, and meeting dino fanatics of all walks of life.
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- Status
- Released
- Production
- Pinto Productions
Keywords
- paleontology
- paleontologist
- natural history
- coming of age
- dinosaur
- fossil
- jurassic
- smithsonian
- science and technology
- science fair
- steam
- jurassic coast
- natural history museum
- science
- documentary film
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Top Cast
Colin Trevorrow as Self
Keegan Kuhn as Self
Dean R. Lomax as Self
Phil Tippett as Self
Dean Cundey as Self
Jingmai O'Connor as Self
Jessica Lippincott as Self
Kallie Moore as Self
Top Crew
Tony Pinto · Director, Writer
James L. Pinto · Director, Writer
Tara Pinto · Producer
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