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Quest for Fire (1981) / Quest for Accuracy

By moviejourneys On March 24, 2014 · Add Comment · In Cave Countries, Early Europe
There are two Hollywood movies that did their homework and made diligent efforts to depict the times of earliest human migration in Eurasia. Both of them falter significantly in what might have been admirable additions to the movie record of the human journey. That being said, they are the best representations we have to date, [...]
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Cave Life: Fact and Fantasy

By moviejourneys On March 24, 2014 · Add Comment · In Cave Countries, Early Europe
The practice of adding large doses of fantasy to what we know of our earliest human ancestors became familiar to audiences in the Movie Century, running parallel to the Lost Land Movies. In this case, hidden valleys populated with throwback dinosaurs were replaced by stories set in the time of the caves. The most obvious [...]
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