10,000 BC

10,000 BC is set in a prehistoric age when humans lived alongside mammoths and sabre-toothed predators. D'Leh, a young hunter in a remote mountain tribe, has fallen in love with Evolet, an orphan the tribe took in years earlier. When horsemen raid the village and carry her off along with other captives, D'Leh leads a small band of hunters beyond the only lands they have ever known. Their pursuit takes them through hostile territory, past prehistoric beasts and toward a lost civilisation of towering pyramids ruled by a tyrant who has enslaved the peoples his warriors have seized.

Roland Emmerich directed and co-wrote the film with Harald Kloser, and produced it with Mark Gordon and Michael Wimer. It was the eighth of the fifteen features Emmerich has directed in chronological order, arriving between The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. Steven Strait plays D'Leh, with Camilla Belle as Evolet, Cliff Curtis as Tic-Tic, Nathanael Baring as Baku, Mo Zinal as Ka'Ren and Affif Ben Badra as the Warlord. The production involved 42 credited cast members and 85 credited crew, and was mounted across New Zealand, the United States and South Africa on a budget of about 105 million dollars.

Released in March 2008 and running 109 minutes, the film took roughly 270 million dollars worldwide, a total well ahead of its cost. Audiences were unenthusiastic: on TMDB it holds 5.5 out of 10 from over three thousand votes, and a critics' rating of 3.5 out of 10 from 147 reviews places it below even that middling audience score.