10,000 B.C.

10,000 BC is a 2008 American film set in the prehistoric era directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Camilla Belle and Steven Strait. The World Premiere of the movie was on February 26, 2008 at the CineStar theater in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. The cinema release was on March 6, 2008.












The film follows D'Leh (Steven Strait), a young mammoth hunter of the Yagahl Tribe who is the son of a hunter that abandoned the village. It was also at that time that D'Leh witnessed the mysterious arrival of Evolet (Camilla Belle), a young girl with bright blue eyes who prompts a prophecy from the wise old woman of the tribe, Old Mother (Mona Hammond) of "four legged demons" (horses) coming to their land during the last Mammoth hunt to occur years later. D'Leh falls in love with Evolet and promises that she will always be in his heart.










Several years later, the Yagahl tribe is expecting the arrival of a mammoth herd to help them survive the winter. According to Tic'Tic (Cliff Curtis), D'Leh's trainer and a friend of D'Leh's father, whoever kills the lead male of the herd will inherit the legendary White Spear of the North, and Evolet as well. When the mammoth herd arrives, the hunters try to capture the biggest one by dropping a net and a rock, but it manages to escape. D'Leh gets his hand caught in the net and is dragged by the mammoth. The struggle ends when the mammoth happens to be pierced in the heart by D'Leh's spear which got stuck in the ground. Since nobody sees this other than Tic'Tic, D'Leh is assumed to be the leader and the winner of Evolet's love. However, Tic'Tic is reluctant to recognize D'Leh. Being honest with what actually happened, D'Leh returns the White Spear.










D'leh stuns one with a rock, and another chases him through At night, a group of raiders come in and kidnap several of Yagahl, including Evolet. The warlord leader takes a liking towards her. His main henchman, One Eye, believes that the girl is a witch who has seduced his master (his later actions hint that he might possibly be attracted to the girl as well). D'Leh decides to rescue Evolet and the rest of the Yagahl. Tic'Tic, Ka'Ren, and young Baku, whose mother was killed by One-Eye during the attack, join him. During their travels to save their people, they encounter a rainforest and are ambushed by a pack of Phorusrhacidsbamboo and D'Leh narrowly avoids being eaten by shoving a bamboo stalk down the bird's throat, rendering it unconscious. Later Ka'Ren and Baku are captured by the raiders.










D'Leh falls into a trap-hole where he finds a Saber-Toothed Cat trapped under wood and drowning. Despite knowing he may be eaten, D'Leh saves the cat by letting it free. D'Leh and Tic'Tic keep on walking through the desert finding the village of the Naku tribe. Just when the Naku are about to attack them, the Saber-Tooth Cat appears, and D'Leh reluctantly confronts it. Recognizing D'Leh as the one who saved it earlier, the feline spares him and protects him and Tic'Tic from the tribe. The tribe acknowledges D'Leh as the fulfiller of the prophecy: a man who speaks to the Spear-Tooth would become savior. D'Leh also learns the truth behind his father from Nakudu, leader of the Naku who learned the Yagahl's words from his father.








Other tribes of the area, on being convinced that the prophecy had been fulfilled, join them. D'Leh learns that Evolet and the others are being taken to the "Mountain of the gods", home to the Lost Civilization, where they would be forced to build altars and pyramids for a mysterious god-like figure who is believed to have come from a "land that sank into the sea". Determined to rescue Evolet and the rest of his tribesmen (and all the other slaves), D'Leh and his friends organize an attack. D'Leh throws a spear at the tyrant god, impaling him, and leaving all spectators awestruck. Evolet frees herself by stabbing the warlord with an arrow. The dying warlord, out of spite, shoots an arrow at Evolet from behind, killing her.