History Film / TenThousandBC

In the titular year of 10,000 B.C. mammoth-hunter named D'Leh. Appearing to slay a gigantic ultra-mammoth, he is awarded his tribe's sacred artifact, the White Spear. This allows him to claim any woman in the tribe as his wife, and he chooses his childhood friend Evolet. However, guilt over not actually slaying a mammoth causes him to return the spear, angering said childhood friend.

A spectacularly [[AnachronismStew historically inaccurate]] movie, directed by Creator/RolandEmmerich and released in 2008, about a mammoth-hunter named D'Leh, ostensibly set in the year 10,000 B.C. During a "great hunt" of a stampede of wooly mammoths, D'Leh ''appears'' to slay a gigantic ultra-mammoth and is awarded his tribe's sacred artifact, the White Spear. This allows him to claim any woman in the tribe as his wife, and he chooses his childhood friend Evolet (who was originally from somewhere else, and found by the tribe wandering the tundra half-dead). However, guilt over not actually slaying a mammoth causes him to return the spear, angering said childhood friend.

Soon after, [[AnachronismStew horsemen with swords]] show up and kidnap many of the villagers, including Evolet. He and the few surviving hunters set off on a quest to track down these raiders and get their families back.

After traversing some [[PatchworkMap seriously weird terrains]], and having a few small adventures along the way, D'Leh is separated from the rest of the party. He ends up at an agricultural village in a desert. There, he manages to impress the local chief, and makes friends with the natives. It turns out that this and many other villages have been victimized by the same raiders that kidnapped D'Leh's people, and taken to "the Mountain of the Gods". After witnessing that D'Leh has befriended a sabertooth tiger, the chief concludes that D'Leh is TheChosenOne who will overthrow the evil god who the horsemen work for.

Following this, all the desert tribes gather together to march towards the Mountain of the Gods (which turns out to be a gigantic and work-in-progress pyramid). There, the prisoners are being used as slaves in a big construction job. The impromptu army attacks and triggers a slave uprising. D'Leh himself kills the false god who's running things, and everybody is freed.

The chief gives D'Leh some seeds, and instructions on how to farm. D'Leh, his wife, and those mammoth-people who remain return to their tundra home to rebuild.

* LastOfHisKind: Old Mother is stated to be such, and implied to be a Neanderthal. The Almighty is also likely such, being the last Atlantean or Alien.

* ChastityDagger: The [[TheBrute lead warlord]] buys [[LoveInterest Evolet]] as his concubine and tries to have a private moment with her. As he prepares to have his way with her, she pulls out one of his knives to kill him. However, they are then interrupted by the [[BigBad Atlantean's]] servants who are none too pleased to see that the warlord tried to keep one of their master's slaves for himself. The servants are GenreSavvy however, and after aresting the warlord, make her give up the knife she had hidden when they entered.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite what the main poster shows, the Smildon only has two short scenes in the movie and never gets to face-off against D’Leh. In fact, it spares his life the two times it appears.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Pretty much ''all'' the extinct megafauna in the film are far larger relative to the human characters than they should be, with the woolly mammoths especially standing out in this regard.

* ChastityDagger: The [[TheBrute lead warlord]] buys [[LoveInterest Evolet]] as his concubine and tries to have a private moment with her. As he prepares to have his way with her, she pulls out a knife to kill him. However, they are then interrupted by the [[BigBad Atlantean's]] servants who are none too pleased to see that the warlord tried to keep one of their master's slaves for himself.

* FeatheredFiend: The Terror birds are huge and very aggressive. They hunt down the humans in tall grass, in a manner reminiscent of the raptors from ''Film/JurassicPark''.

After traversing some [[PatchworkMap seriously weird terrains]], and having a few small adventures along the way, D'Leh is separated from the rest of the party. He ends up at an agricultural village in a desert. There, he manages to impress the local chief, and makes friends with the natives. It turns out that this and many other villages have been victimized by the same raiders that kidnapped D'Leh's people, and taken to "the Mountain of the Gods". After witnessing that D'Lef has befriended a sabertooth tiger, he chief concludes that D'Leh is TheChosenOne who will overthrow the evil god who the horsemen work for.

** [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] notices that the area transitions from the Brazilian rain forests to the South Chinese tropical forest when one of the terror birds chases the hero into an area forested in bamboo. However, it could have been AluminumChristmasTrees on his part, as there are species of bamboo that do grow in Latin America.

* PantheraAwesome: A giant sabre-toothed cat.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite what the main poster shows, the Smildon only has two short scenes in the movie and never gets to face-off against D’Leh.

* TitleByYear: Ostensibly set in the year 10,000 B.C. released in 2008.

A spectacularly [[AnachronismStew historically inaccurate]] movie, released in 2008, about a mammoth-hunter named D'Leh, ostensibly set in the year 10,000 B.C. During a "great hunt" of a stampede of wooly mammoths, D'Leh ''appears'' to slay a gigantic ultra-mammoth and is awarded his tribe's sacred artifact, the White Spear. This allows him to claim any woman in the tribe as his wife, and he chooses his childhood friend Evolet (who was originally from somewhere else, and found by the tribe wandering the tundra half-dead). However, guilt over not actually slaying a mammoth causes him to return the spear, angering said childhood friend.

A spectacularly [[AnachronismStew historically inaccurate]] movie, released in 2008, about a mammoth-hunter named D'Leh, ostensibly set in the year 10,000 B.C. During a "great hunt" of a stampede of wooly mammoths, D'Leh ''appears'' to slay a gigantic ultra-mammoth and is awarded his tribe's sacred artifact, the White Spear. This allows him to claim any woman in the tribe as his wife, and he chooses his childhood friend Evolet (who was originally from somewhere else, and found by the tribe wandering the tundra half-dead). Then guilt over not actually slaying a mammoth causes him to return the spear, angering said childhood friend.

Soon after, [[AnachronismStew horsemen with swords]] show up and kidnap many of the villagers, including D'Leh's girlfriend. He and the few surviving hunters set off on a quest to track down these raiders and get their families back.

After traversing some [[PatchworkMap seriously weird terrains]], and having a few small adventures along the way, D'Leh is separated from the rest of the party. He ends up at an agricultural village in a desert. There, he manages to impress the local chief, and makes friends with the natives. It turns out that this and many other villages have been victimized by the same raiders that kidnapped D'Leh's people, and taken to "the Mountain of the Gods". The chief somehow concludes that D'Leh is TheChosenOne who will overthrow the evil god who is doing this.

%%* TheChosenOne: Both D'Leh and [[spoiler:Evolet]].

* TheDogBitesBack: A subtle example-among the numerous peoples from disparate countries D'Leh brings with him to the pyramid include a group of giant African warriors. They all sneak in disguised as slaves and an overseer begins continuously whipping their leader, who just crouches down and takes it until D'Leh gives the signal, when he immediately stands up to his full, seven-foot plus height, grabs the overseer by the throat and effortlessly hurls him off the pyramid to his death.
%%* FeatheredFiend: The Terror birds are huge and very aggressive.

* LastOfHisKind: Old Mother is heavily implied to be a Neanderthal and is stated to be such. The Almighty is also likely such, being the last Atlantean or Alien.

Following this, all the desert tribes gather together to march towards the Mountain of the Gods (which turns out to be a gigantic and work-in-progress pyramid.) There, the prisoners are being used as slaves in a big construction job. The impromptu army attacks and triggers a slave uprising. D'Leh himself kills the false god who's running things, and everybody is freed.

A spectacularly [[AnachronismStew historically inaccurate]] movie about a mammoth-hunter named D'Leh, ostensibly set in the year 10,000 B.C. During a "great hunt" of a stampede of wooly mammoths, D'Leh ''appears'' to slay a gigantic ultra-mammoth and is awarded his tribe's sacred artifact, the White Spear. This allows him to claim any woman in the tribe as his wife, and he chooses his childhood friend Evolet (who was originally from somewhere else, and found by the tribe wandering the tundra half-dead). Then guilt over not actually slaying a mammoth causes him to return the spear, angering said childhood friend.

Soon after, all the desert tribes gather together to march towards the Mountain of the Gods (which turns out to be a gigantic and work-in-progress pyramid.) There, the prisoners are being used as slaves in a big construction job. The impromptu army attacks and triggers a slave uprising. D'Leh himself kills the false god who's running things, and everybody is freed.

%%* FeatheredFiend: Terror birds.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The confrontation with the Smilodon is featured heavily. [[spoiler: It gets stuck in a pit that's filling with water. D'leh says to it "Do not eat me after I free you!" He frees it, then it goes off on its way.]]

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** [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] notices that the area transitions from the Brazilian rain forests to the South Chinese tropical forest when one of the terror birds chases the hero into an area forested in bamboo. However, it could have been {{Dan Browned}} on his part, as there are species of bamboo that do grow in Latin America.

* DeconstructeddTrope: Baku wants to be a hunter from the very start of the movie, becoming a TagalongKid in pursuit of that and is reluctantly accepted in this role by Tic'tic and D'leh, and gets his chance in a metaphorical hunt during the climax after D'leh starts a stampede among the captured mammoths. Furthermore, Baku's motivation in the film is the find and kill the one-eyed slaver as revenge for his mother's death at the start of the film. Finally, in the very last battle in the entire film, he gets his chance: One-Eye is advancing on Baku's friend Tudu and Baku has a spear. He raises his spear, hurls it at his archenemy...and completely misses. What did you ''think'' was gonna happen, Baku? You've never used a spear before! Luckily, Nakudu is there to ''successfully'' kill One-Eye in the same way that Baku tried.

* RealityEnsues: Baku wants to be a hunter from the very start of the movie, becoming a TagalongKid in pursuit of that and is reluctantly accepted in this role by Tic'tic and D'leh, and gets his chance in a metaphorical hunt during the climax after D'leh starts a stampede among the captured mammoths. Furthermore, Baku's motivation in the film is the find and kill the one-eyed slaver as revenge for his mother's death at the start of the film. Finally, in the very last battle in the entire film, he gets his chance: One-Eye is advancing on Baku's friend Tudu and Baku has a spear. He raises his spear, hurls it at his archenemy...and completely misses. What did you ''think'' was gonna happen, Baku? You've never used a spear before! Luckily, Nakudu is there to ''successfully'' kill One-Eye in the same way that Baku tried.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Pretty much ''all'' the extinct megafauna in the film are far larger relative to the protagonists than they should be, with the woolly mammoths especially standing out in this regard.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Pretty much 'all'' the extinct megafauna in the film are far larger relative to the protagonists than they should be, with the woolly mammoths especially standing out in this regard.

* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: Averted. All of the major characters except maybe The Almighty and Old Mother are normal, physically modern ''Homo sapiens''. The Almighty's exact nature as a human or HumanAlien is left unclear, whereas Old Mother is heavily implied to be a bonafide neanderthal and the LastOfHerKind.

* AnachronismStew: The "god" and his immediate followers are ancient-Egyptian flavored, the warband he hires as muscle are arabic-ish horsemen with Polynesian style boats, and everyone else is in various flavors of the stone age.

* ArtisticLicensePalaeontology: Too many to count.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Old Mother sacrifices her life so that Evolet can be brought back to life]].

%%* TheChosenOne: Both D'Leh and [[spoiler: Evolet]].

** Since the film takes place somewhere in the Old World, Smilodon should not be there, as it lived in North and South America. Also, it is designed to look like a big tiger with long fangs and a short tail, which is based on the alternate name "Sabre-toothed tiger". In reality, Smilodon wadn't a type of tiger and was a member of a completely separate group of felines.