10,000 BC is a 2008 American action-adventure film produced and directed by Roland Emmerich, who co-wrote with Harald Kloser (who also co-composed).

When a young blue-eyed girl is brought to their camp, the lone survivor of an attack of "four-legged demons", the Yagahl's shamanistic Neanderthal Old Mother prophesizes that the demons will come to them as well after their last mammoth hunt; the girl, named Evolet, will be betrothed to the champion of this hunt, and the pair will lead the Yagahl into a new way of life.

The tribe's children ridicule D'Leh for what they view his father's cowardice, and when he seeks comfort from Evolet, the two begin to fall in love.

Years later, when the mammoths finally return, the adult D'Leh hunts them with his tribe's men under Tic'Tic's leadership and kills one by accident, inadvertently winning the White Spear and Evolet.

D'Leh, Tic'Tic, Ka'Ren, and a young boy, Baku, set out to rescue their fellow Yagahl as Old Mother follows their journey in spirit.

D'Leh and the tribes discover an advanced Egyptian civilization ruled by the "Almighty", an untouchable god-king, who is using the kidnapped tribesmen along with some mammoths to build pyramids.

With the Almighty dead and his civilization destroyed, the Yagahl bid the other tribes farewell and returned home with seeds collected by D’Leh’s father, given to them by the Naku to begin a new life.

In an alternative ending, the scene shifts forward many years into the future, showing Baku's retelling of the story by the camp fire.

While woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers may have existed as late as 10,000 B.C., both species were on the brink of extinction around this time, likely due to a combination of human hunting, disease, and climate change.

[4] The inclusion of advanced civilizations, pyramid-like monuments, written language, and metal tools in the narrative is highly inaccurate.

Early evidence of agriculture dates to around 9,400 B.C., but organized farming and the use of tools like hoes would not have been widespread at the time depicted in the film.

Additionally, while some early stone monuments, such as Göbekli Tepe, date to roughly 9,000 B.C., the advanced technology shown in the film, including metal tools and the sextant, is misplaced by several millennia.

[9] When the project received the greenlight from Columbia Pictures, screenwriter John Orloff began work on a new draft of the original script.

[13] Dialect coach Brendan Gunn was hired by Emmerich and Kloser to create "a half dozen" languages for the film.

"[24] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 34 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[25] Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote: "Conventional where it should be bold and mild where it should be wild, 10,000 BC reps a missed opportunity to present an imaginative vision of a prehistoric moment.

"[26] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote: "Roland Emmerich's great big CGI blockbuster lumbers along like one of the woolly mammoths that roam across the screen.