Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85840 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-03-13
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 93 minutes

From the Back Cover
A year ago, scientists and explorers excavated the remains of a 20,000-year-old woolly mammoth from its frigid tomb in Siberia. LAND OF THE MAMMOTH is the exciting documentary that follows the ongoing search and discovery of new clues as to what scientists are learning from this very rare block of remains. The adventure begins as a team of international scientists start the defrosting process of the Jarkov Mammoth in the arctic chill of an underground ice cave. In the largest expedition to collect Ice Age remains, explorers spread out across the Taimyr Peninsula in a search for more specimens of mammoths and other species that shared his domain. The most recent findings from these and other initial studies, and the discovery of hundreds more prehistoric specimens, have begun to create a more vivid picture of what the woolly mammoth's world was really like some 20,000 years ago. LAND OF THE MAMMOTH has taken the findings one step further with life-like computer animation to put the viewer inside the mammoth's world as only Discovery Channel can.

Customer Reviews

Oh dear
I saw this when It first aired on Discovery. The program is trying so hard to be like Walking with Dinosaurs but it totally fails.

The main problem is there is just not enough footage and so many shots are shown repeatedly. While some of the footage is indeed interesting there are only so many shots of hairdryers thawing out a lump of hairy ice that I can take, and while them finding the first mammoth tusk was interesting by the time they had dug up the 50th I was almost asleep...

There is also a problem with the CG. It is just terrible!! Whereas in walking with dinosaur you really felt that the dinosaurs were alive, in this the mammoths look horrible and dont walk relistically. The program looks like it was rushed so that it could jump aboard the Walking with Dinosaurs bandwagon.

I'd recommend trying to catch a repeat on Discovery before buying this disc

Buy Walking with Prehistoric Beasts
This is good for watch on television once in a while. But if you want a good film about mammoths watch Walking with Prehistoric Beasts. It has just as many mammoth shots as Land of the Mammoth but are much more realistic. Not to mention all the great other creatures beasts describes. Land of the Mammoth had bad special effects. It should have talked more about cloning the creature itstead of digging in the ground and repeating the same shots over and over again. They were diging in the block but the film stops before they got to the interesting part of the block. Now it is good for hard core mammoth fans but I suggest Walking with Prehistoric Beasts.

Mammoth DVDs were very good
I have both of these DVDs, both this one, and the previous, Raising the Mammoth, which I found to be fascinating, informative and entertaining. Granted, they are not Jurrasic Park or some such, but they were not intended to be. They are documentaries, not feature films. And true, the Computer Graphics, in some cases, was not up to the standards of Walking with Dinosaurs, but again, I don't think that was the intent of the producers, although I think they would have liked it to be.

These two films, seen back to back, show the efforts being made and the studies conducted in the scientific field of endeavor, not the made for TV movie. If you really want to learn what is going on with research into these areas, you will really enjoy these films. And, it is true, in the end, they discovered that the animal they had hoped to be intact seems to have been damaged, either by injury, exposure or predation after death, there is still a lot to be learned from these films and I urge you all to view them, if you have the slightest interest in this field of study.