Wild New World(2002)

Wild New World is a BBC documentary series that transports viewers to prehistoric North America roughly 14,000 years ago, when humans first arrived on the continent. The series reconstructs the Ice Age landscape using computer animation and digital effects, bringing extinct megafauna to life: woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, short-faced bears, and glyptodonts. Each episode traces how these ancient animals shaped the ecosystems that early humans encountered and explores the evolutionary legacies these creatures left behind. Drawing on archaeological discoveries from sites across America, the filmmakers—the same team behind Blue Planet and Walking with Dinosaurs—reveal how these vanished species influenced the development of modern North American wildlife. The series combines rigorous paleontological research with immersive visual storytelling to capture a lost world.