10,000 BC is a 2008 action adventure film produced by Roland Emmerich. It follows a group of hunter gatherers. It was made by Warner Bros pictures and while it was a box office success. It was one of the lowest grossing films of 2008.
Plot[]
At the end of the Ice Age a group of hunter gatherers live in the Ural Mountains. While they have survived by eating mammoths. Their way of life is dying. A young girl is brought to their camp 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.
Not wanting to risk losing their way of life the tribe's chief hunter and bearer of the White Spear leaves on his own to search for another way to save his people; he entrusts the White Spear, his young son D'Leh, and the true purpose of his quest to his friend Tic'Tic. 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 a herd of mammoths returns and 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. The following day the camp is attacked by a group of horse riders. Evolet is kidnapped by the leader.
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. During an attack on the slavers by terror birds, Evolet is recaptured along with Ka'Ren and Baku, and Tic'Tic is wounded. While hunting, D'Leh falls into a pit, where he helps free a trapped saber-tooth tiger, asking it not to eat him before escaping.
Tic'Tic recovers and finds their way to a sedentary Naku village, also attacked by the riders. The surviving villagers nearly attack them until the saber-tooth tiger comes to save D'Leh from the initially hostile Naku. They also learn that D'Leh's father was a guest of the Naku before the riders captured him.
Several tribes arrive to form a coalition to defeat the slavers, with D'Leh as their leader. They find the ships holding Evolet and their loved ones but fail to reach them before they cast off. They set out to follow on foot, and D'Leh learns to use the North Star to navigate the journey. 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.
D'Leh and Tic’Tic sneak into the slave cages, and D’Leh learns that his father was killed trying to defend a slave. The party is spotted by the guards, who Tic'Tic kills before he succumbs to his wound. D'Leh and the tribesman infiltrate the civilization, and D'Leh starts a rebellion among the slaves, killing many of the Almighty's forces. However, Ka'Ren sacrifices himself as D'Leh eventually starts a stampede.
The Almighty threatens to kill Evolet if they do not abandon their rebellion. D'Leh feigns acceptance but easily kills the Almighty with the White Spear, breaking his illusion of godhood. During the ensuing battle, the warlord fatally wounds Evolet, who is then killed by D'Leh. He is devastated when Evolet dies in his arms, but her life is restored in exchange for Old Mother's, who dies having fulfilled her final duty. 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.