Big Al (Season 1)

Big Al (2000) is a Walking with Dinosaurs special you can watch online on iFILM. It is built around a real fossil: the near-complete skeleton of a young Allosaurus, unearthed in Wyoming in 1991.

The bones came covered in fractures and healed wounds, and paleontologists used them to reconstruct one animal's whole life — hatchling, clumsy juvenile, scarred predator of the Jurassic floodplains, then a lonely death in a dried-up riverbed 145 million years ago. Kenneth Branagh narrates while the BBC's effects team rebuilds Al frame by frame. Director Kate Bartlett turns a forensic study into something closer to a survival story, proof that a nature doc can grip you like a feature. Stream Big Al (2000) online on iFILM.