Set in a present-day theme park, Jurassic Park is the story of man creating real dinosaurs from DNA contained in ancient insects trapped in amber. The park's electrical system is tampered with and the dinosaurs escape from their fenced-in domains, causing chaos. Released in 1993, Jurassic Park remains one of the most famous dinosaur movies of all time because the computer-generated dinosaurs were so chillingly life-like, significantly moreso than anything that had previously been created.
This animated film, produced by Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, features cute, young, orphaned dinosaurs on a quest for their utopia, the "Great Valley." This movie was very successful at the box-office and generated many sequels and subsequent television shows.
This hit 1975 movie was adapted from the 1918 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It features the survivors of a disoriented German U-Boat who are stranded on a remote island that is populated by dinosaurs and uncivilized humans. It was remade in 2009.
"Gojira," renamed "Godzilla" in the United States, is a 1954 Japanese film by Ishiro Honda. It is the tale of a 164-foot tall radioactive dinosaur creature who wrecks havoc on Japan. Considered a classic in film-making, this movie is famous for sparking the making of many related films, including American remakes.