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201360 minGdocumentary

7.3/ 10(7 ratings)• TMDB

Ice Age Giants

201360 minGdocumentary

7.3/ 10(7 ratings)• TMDB

Professor Alice Roberts investigates the lives of Ice Age animals, including mammoths and sabre-tooth cats, from 40,000 years ago.

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Mags Lightbody,

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Professor Alice Roberts investigates the lives of Ice Age animals, including mammoths and sabre-tooth cats, from 40,000 years ago.

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Tim Walkerdirector

Mags Lightbodydirector

Mark Flowersdirector

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Professor Alice Roberts journeys 40,000 years back in time on the trail of the great beasts of the Ice Age. This was the last time that giants like mammoths, woolly rhinos, and sabre-tooth cats ruled the Earth and Alice attempts to reconstruct their lives in incredible detail.

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