Tumak, member of the prehistoric Rock tribe, is exiled and makes his way to the more peaceful Shell tribe, where he is taken in and taught manners by the lovely Loana. Forced to leave the Shell tribe for fighting, Tumak, along with Loana, return to the Rock tribe, where Loana shows them the error of their brutal ways - until the volcano erupts!

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The story, characters and dialogue were closely copied for the Hammer remake. It was was the top-grossing film of 1940, and marked the debut of big-chested Victor Mature as a leading man. It received good reviews upon its release (with the New York Times referring to it as a “masterpiece of imaginative fiction”)

Tigri and her stone-age girl friends hate all men, but realizing they are a necessary evil, capture some for potential (strictly business, no recreation allowed) husbands. Engor escapes and, in his travels, discovers fire. This comes in handy later, after he has been recaptured by the women, when he drives off a dragon, or something, with his new discovery. This little feat has the effect of making the women realize their rightful subservient position, and he and Tigri have a primitive (non-catered) wedding, and go off to start a new tribe of fur-wearers.

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This independent film was also titled The Virgin Goddess. Prehistoric Women. Actress Laurette Luez, who plays Tigri in this film, claims to have given Marilyn Monroe her stage name.

A prehistoric tribe live in a remote Valley . A youth stands up to question their laws, which state that to cross the river and the Burning Plains beyond will bring death. He is threatened with exile and so decides to set forth to discover the truth for himself accompanied by three others. They encounter giant lizards, wild dogs and eventually a man who comes from beyond the Burning Plains and holds the truth about the nature of their world.

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This film was shot under the title "Prehistoric World". American International changed the title to "Teenage Cave Man". Lead actor Robert Vaughn has stated in an interview that he considered it to be the worst film ever made.

Caveman Tumak is banished from his savage tribe. He finds a brief home among a group of gentle seacoast dwelling cave people until he is banished from them as well. Missing him, one of their women, Loana leaves with him, deciding to face the harsh prehistoric world with its monsters and volcanos as a couple.

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Welch was described as "wearing mankind's first bikini" and the fur bikini was described as a "definitive look of the 1960s".

 

"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

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Sequel - 2010 (released in 1984)

 

Set in contemporary England, Anthropologist Dr. Brockton finds the so-called "missing link" half-caveman, half-ape whom she dubs "Trog" (short for "troglodyte") living in a local cave. She manages to capture and domesticate him, using drugs and surgery to try to communicate with him.

A local businessman / land developer afraid of negative commercial consequences, Sam Murdock frees the creature, leading to a rampage and kidnap of a little girl.

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This low budget horror movie was Joan Crawford's last feature film

 

Severn orphan cavemen grow up on a island by themselves, but when a fire burns all vegetation, the men are forced to take a raft to the unknown mainland. One day they trap a strange female animal, looking very similar to them.

She convinces one of the men not to eat her, so he hides her and serves the other cavemen a goat. Later they both escape and are pursued by the 6 men until, they meet the rest of her clan: a tribe of about 150 women.

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Low budget Italian comedy, which was a surprising box-office hit in Italy and produced a 1972 sequel - When women lost their tails.

Set in a non-existant past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to survive by giving a sacrifice of a blond woman to their gods in return for protection from the giant lizards looking to snack on them. Sanna, one of the sacrificial offerings, finds herself on her own when a freak storm interrupts the ceremony. As she searches for a safe haven she encounters hostility from rival tribes and lots of huge and very hungry dinos.

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The landscapes (Earth during the Quaternary) were filmed in Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura (Canary Islands). Locations included Maspalomas beach, Ansite Mountain, Amurga and Caldera de Tejeda.

 

Tthe intrepid Major Ben McBride, searches the Arctic for his lost friend, with Charly, the spunky lady photographer with a dainty puckish streak. As luck would have it, they come across a tropical zone that is home to big fake dinosaurs, surly Neanderthals and nubile cavewomen with truly astonishing cleavages. Ah, but if only it were that simple. An evil rival tribe has been exterminating the gentle cave people and must be stopped. Whatever else you may want to say about producers Samuel Z Arkoff and John Dark, they simply do not skimp on explosions. The People That Time Forgot has a detonation-filled corker of an ending that leaves the cast absolutely showered with dirt clods.

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The film is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot (1975)

A simple caveman accidently becomes leader of a clan of cavemisfits and outcasts living in "One Zillion BC – October 9th". But he ultimately wants to outsmart the bigger, stronger leader of his former clan and win the affection of a beautiful cavewoman. He lusts after the beautiful but shallow Lana, who is the mate of Tonda.

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At some showings audiences were issued a translation pamphlet for 30 "caveman words."The only English dialog present is used for comedic effect, when it is spoken by a caveman played by Evan Kim who speaks modern English but is understood by none of the other characters.

From the dawn of man to the distant future, mankind's evolution (or lack thereof) is traced. Often ridiculous but never serious, we learn the truth behind the Roman Emperor, we learn what REALLY happened at the Last Supper, the circumstances that surrounded the French Revolution, how to test eunuchs, and what kind of shoes the Spanish Inquisitor wore.

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The four main segments consist of stories set during the Dawn of Man, the Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition, and the French Revolution. Other intermediate skits include reenactments of the giving of the Ten Commandments and the Last Supper

Quest for Fire takes place in Paleolithic Europe,some 80,000 years ago. A primitive homo sapiens tribe huddles around a natural fire source for comfort and survival. When that source is extinguished, tribesmen Naoh, Amoukar, and Gaw are sent out on a "quest for fire." After several days of wandering through the prehistoric landscape, the three come across a cannibal tribe that knows how to produce fire; they save a young girl, Ika (Rae Dawn Chong), from the clutches of the cannibals, with the hope that she'll reveal the secret.

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The film was nominated for six César Awards in 1981, winning those for best film and best director. In 1983 it won the Academy Award for Makeup.In 1983, it won in five categories in the Genie Awards

An anthropologist who is part of an arctic exploration team discovers the body of a prehistoric man who is still alive. He must then decide what to do with the prehistoric man and he finds himself defending the creature from those that want to dissect it in the name of science.

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Critic Richard Scheib said, "The film was part of a brief revival of the old caveman vs dinosaurs genre, along with Quest for Fire and Clan of the Cave Bear), in which earlier action-fantasy films were redressed with a much stricter regard to anthropological realism. Iceman, using modern science, became one of the more refreshingly intelligent films.

At a time in prehistory when Neanderthals shared the Earth with early Homo sapiens, a band of cave-dwellers adopt a young Cro-Magnon blond and blue-eyed girl called Ayla, a child of the "Others".

As Ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage (unlike other women of the clan), she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of Broud, who will one day be clan leader.

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A planned back-to-back sequel never made it into production

Stoney and Dave find a caveman (Link) trapped in ice, thaw him out, and show him around town. Although Link is slow to catch on to basic concepts of 20th century life, he has no trouble impressing all the girls and helping Stoney and Dave find the coolness they've been searching for.

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Encino Man was released in Europe as California Man.

The Flintstones and the Rubbles are modern stone-age families. Fred and Barney work at Slate and Company, mining rock. Fred gives Barney some money so he and Betty can adopt a baby. When Fred and Barney take a test to determine who should become the new associate vice president, Barney returns the favor by switching his test answers for Fred's, whose answers aren't very good. Fred gets the executive position, but little realizes that he's being manipulated by Cliff Vandercave to be the fall guy for an embezzlement scheme.

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Prequel - The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a stupid sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed tiger named Diego are forced to become unlikely heroes. The three reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age.

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Sequels - Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (released 2006), Ice Age3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (released 2008) and Ice Age 4: The Continental Drift (to be released 2012)

Aki and Mora are a couple with a child on the way living 24,000 years ago in England during the last ice age. Brom is their tribal chief. As the ice cap advances they flee southeast towards warmer weather.

At that time there was no English channel and they walked to France and over several months on to present day Czechoslovakia. This is a fictional account of how people might have coped back then.

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The movie was filmed in northern Canada. Tim Lambert directed Stone Age Atlantis in 2010.

In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods. Jaguar Paw hides his pregnant wife and his son in a deep hole nearby their tribe and is captured while fighting with his people. An eclipse spares his life from the sacrifice and later he has to fight to survive and save his beloved family.

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For his role as producer and director of the film, Mel Gibson was given the Trustee Award by the First Americans in the Arts organization. Gibson was also awarded the Latino Business Association's Chairman's Visionary Award for his work on Apocalypto

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he is an immortal who has walked the earth for 14,000 years.

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From one of the acclaimed writers of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone comes a story that transcends both time and space

"Homo Erectus" follows the exploits of the hapless Ishbo, a philosophical caveman who yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones and raw meat. Too shy to knock his soulmate unconscious and drag her back to his cave, Ishbo is reduced to inventing bicycles, pants and other novel devices that bring ridicule from the rest of his tribe. "It's about time we started thinking outside of the box here people!" a frustrated Ishbo shouts, to which Thudnik replies, "What the hell is a box?"

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"Homo Erectus" was produced by the University of Texas at Austin as part of the school's since-disbanded Burnt Orange program, which gave approximately 50 film students a chance to gain practical experience on a professional movie set

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D'Leh's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart's desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant.

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The film received largely negative reviews from critics, stating that the movie is mainly visual and lacks a firm screenplay. Critics noted that the film is archaeologically inaccurate.

Zed, a prehistoric would-be hunter, eats from a tree of forbidden fruit and is banished from his tribe, accompanied by Oh, a shy gatherer. On their travels, they meet Cain and Abel on a fateful day, stop Abraham from killing Isaac, become slaves, and reach the city of Sodom where their tribe is now enslaved. Zed and Oh are determined to rescue the women they love, Maya and Eema. Standing in their way is Sodom's high priest and the omnipresent Cain. Zed tries to form an alliance with Princess Innana, which may backfire. Can an inept hunter and a smart but slender and diffident gatherer become heroes and make a difference?

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The film received negative reviews from critics. Several critics panned the film for being similar to Mel Brooks's History of the World, Part I.

Ao is a nomad who lives in harmony with nature and travels across Europe in search of survivors from his clan. Rejected by the groups he meets due to his ape-like features and colossal strength, he falls in love with a Homo sapiens woman, Aki, who has been imprisoned by her tribe.

Ao fights for his survival, and to protect his loved ones, but their biggest danger is the "Hyena-Men", a clan of the Homo sapiens that are out to exterminate him and his species.

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There no modern language, but a French voice-over

Surviving in a volcanic world is tough enough, but caveman Grug gets a rude awakening when an earthquake forces him to leave behind the only world he knows. With his family, he ventures out into the volatile world in search of a new home. The situation becomes even more complicated when Grug's family - in particular his eldest daughter - falls for a nomad they encounter on their dangerous journey. This quirky, imaginative stranger's search for 'tomorrow' is at odds with Grug's reliance on the traditions of yesterday.

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A comedy adventure that takes us back to the beginning - to a previously undiscovered era known as the Croodacious - a time when Mother Nature was still experimenting and the flora and fauna we know today has not evolved yet.

"Sony Pictures Animation said Monday that Favreau will write and produce the CG-animated feature "Neanderthals," based on his original story.

Further details about the plot line, the company said, "are being kept in a cave under a large boulder protected by a mastodon."

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The Iron Man director said "We've been discussing this for almost four years now and it's finally coming to fruition. It's written and ready to go". Favreau insists that "Neanderthals" will be something else entirely – different from even other motion capture animated films like "Beowulf" or "Polar Express."