T. Rex

Please note, this film offers a scientifically accurate portrayal of the T. Rex. While some scenes may be intense for young children, we encourage parents to use their discretion when considering if it’s suitable for your children.

For over a hundred years dinosaurs have inspired and thrilled audiences, commanding blockbuster status in museums and at the box office. But among them towers a king—a tyrant lizard king. With leaps in CGI wizardry and revolutions in tyrannosaur paleontology over the past twenty-five years, the time has come to revisit rex in the world’s prestigious museum cinemas. Working with top tyrannosaur scientists, a coalition of natural history institutions, and pioneering paleo and visual effects artists, GSF’s original giant screen production on this iconic dinosaur—and its carnivorous Cretaceous cousins—aims to be the most dazzling and accurate T. rex documentary ever made. With hat tips to famous specimens, landmark discoveries, and wild cinematic depictions over the last century, the film will explore the interplay between speculation and evidence, and reveal how the process of science refreshes and reimagines our understanding of this legendary dinosaur.

Film Details

• Run time: 45 minutes
• Rating: GA
• Format: 3D

This program sponsored in part through COCA’s Cultural Grant Program funded by the City of Tallahassee and Leon County. Your ticket purchase supports the Challenger Learning Center’s community outreach and educational programming.

Young fossil finders Liam Fisher, Jessin Fisher and Kaiden Madsen uncovered diagnostic features of the juvenile T. rex the boys discovered in the Badlands of North Dakota. Photo by David Clark.

The crew of the documentary T. REX visited otherworldly locations on the coast of New Zealand to recreate the inland sea that covered much of today’s North American continent during the Cretaceous. Photo by Rob Grzymala.