The Dinosaurs is a 2026 American television nature documentary miniseries produced by Amblin Documentaries and Silverback Films. Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, series directed by Nick Shoolingin-Jordan and narrated by Morgan Freeman, the four-part series focuses on the history of dinosaurs from their appearance in the Triassic period until their demise in the CretaceousâÂÂPaleogene extinction event. A successor to Life on Our Planet (2023), the series was released on Netflix on March 6, 2026.
In May 2024, Silverback Films announced that the 'next iteration' of Life on Our Planet will be a four-part miniseries focused on the 'rise and fall of the dinosaurs' spanning 170 million years. The new series will also be made by the same production team as Life On Our Planet. The title of the series was revealed in January 2026, and the release date of the series was announced to be in the first quarter of 2026. On February 5, 2026, Netflix released the official trailer for the series, which was marketed as the spiritual successor to Life on Our Planet.
The Dinosaurs received generally positive reviews, more so than its predecessor. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes lists a 100% approval rating based on eight reviews. Deadline reports that the series had 10.4 million views in the week of March 2âÂÂ8, 2026. This would rank it as the second-most popular series on Netflix during that week, behind season 4 of Bridgerton (2020âÂÂ).
The Guardian<nowiki/>'s Jack Seale praised the effects, writing "the dinosaurs are only a notch below the very best photorealist simulations we have seen." He was also pleased by Freeman's narration, writing "the voiceover is the real draw." His main criticisms were the repetitive storytelling and a lack of depth for specialists. Most other reviewers were impressed by the effects and narrative. Esquire<nowiki/>'s Henry Wong criticized the series' CGI as "frequently ugly," while also noting that the storytelling was less constrained than traditional wildlife documentaries.