Last Updated on 12 June 2024
The following list is the Official Definitive List of the 100 best dinosaur movies of all time.
I found 26 different ranked lists online of “best dinosaur movies of all time” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 26 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you can print to track which ones you’ve seen, followed by the ranked list with links to IMDb.
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- The Land Before Time (1988)
- Jurassic World (2015)
- King Kong (2005)
- The Good Dinosaur (2015)
- Dinosaur (2000)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
- Walking With Dinosaurs (1999)
- The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
- One Million Years B.C. (1966)
- Jurassic Park III (2001)
- Land of the Lost (2009)
- King Kong (1933)
- The Water Horse (2007)
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
- The Lost World (1925)
- Godzilla (1954)
- The Flintstones (1994)
- Kong: Skull Island (2017)
- A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
- Fantasia (1940)
- Heart and Yummie (2010)
- Godzilla (2014)
- Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)
- We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993)
- Shin Godzilla (2016)
- Night at the Museum (2006)
- Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
- Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)
- Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)
- Theodore Rex (1995)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
- The Tree of Life (2011)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
- The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
- The Lost World (1960)
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
- Planet Dinosaur (2011)
- Gorgo (1961)
- The Lost World (1992)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
- 65 (2023)
- Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
- A Sound of Thunder (2005)
- Carnosaur (1993)
- Monsters Resurrected (2009)
- My Pet Dinosaur (2017)
- Dinosaur Island (1994)
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
- The Adventures of Jurassic Pet (2019)
- Valley of the Dragons (1961)
- Caveman (1981)
- The Land Unknown (1957)
- Ice Age (2002)
- The Host (2006)
- The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
- The Dinosaur Project (2012)
- Flying Monsters 3D (2011)
- The VelociPastor (2018)
- Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
- 100 Million BC (2008)
- Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
- Lost Continent (1951)
- The Dinosaur Experiment (Raptor Ranch) (2013)
- The Lost World (2001)
- King Dinosaur (1955)
- Godzilla (1998)
- Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World (2010)
- Super Mario Bros. (1993)
- 10,000 BC (2008)
- Godzilla 1985 (1985)
- Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007)
- Dinotopia (2002)
- Dragon Wars: D-War (2007)
- Island of the Dinosaurs (1967)
- Jurassic City (2015)
- Rise of the Dinosaurs (Jurassic Attack) (2013)
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)
- Dinosaur Island (2014)
- Dinosaurus! (1960)
- Pete’s Dragon (2016)
- Extinction (2014)
- Dinosaur 13 (2014)
- Reign of Fire (2002)
- The Last Dinosaur (1977)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
- The People That Time Forgot (1977)
- Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010)
- Dinosaur Island (2002)
- Poseidon Rex (2013)
- The Meg (2018)
- The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
- Area 407 (2012)
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
- Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
- At the Earth’s Core (1976)
- The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)