IMAX Movies | IMAX Theatre at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC

FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES
Approx. Running time: 45 Minutes

"A stunning documentary that fills the screen with millions of orange-and-black butterflies..." (4 out of 4 stars) Ottawa Citizen

" A must see IMAX journey... a feast for the eyes and one of the best IMAX documentaries." (4 out of 4 stars) The Seattle Times

What weighs half a gram and travels thousands of kilometers every year? Every winter, the remote and mountainous volcanic forests of Mexico are home to one of nature's greatest gatherings - hundreds of millions of migrating monarch butterflies weathering the winter. For centuries this miracle was hidden from all but a few. When it was revealed to the world it was hailed as one of the greatest discoveries in nature. It also unveiled the longest insect migration on Earth.

We follow the captivating story of Dana (Danaus Plexippus) and her descendants as they make the perilous return journey from Mexico to Canada. How do these tiny and iconic creatures travel so far and know where to go each year to a place they have never been? This epic natural history saga is interwoven with the fascinating detective story and a determined scientist's almost 40 year search to find their amazing overwintering sites.

** EDUCATORS: Please CLICK HERE for the Flight of the Butterflies Educator Guide providing more information related to the teaching curriculum and student age group.

Rating: G

SHACKLETON'S ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE
Approx. Running time: 43 Minutes

Summer of 2013 will be plucked from the pages of history at IMAX Victoria in the Royal BC Museum. The Theatre will present Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure in conjunction with the Race to End of the Earth exhibit at the Museum. The exhibit focuses on two Antarctic explorers and their great race to the South Pole while the IMAX film, Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, tells the extraordinary story of a third polar explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and his now-legendary 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. While never accomplishing its goal of the first crossing of the Antarctic continent, this expedition has become a larger-than-life testament to heroism and human endurance, with all 28 men surviving nearly two years in the barren, frigid Antarctic when their ship, Endurance, was caught in pack ice and eventually crushed.

"There aren't many stories of human endurance that compare to this one."
The New York Times

THE LAST REEF: Cities Beneath The Sea
Approx. Running time: 45 Minutes

ENDING June, 13th, 2013 |The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea was recently honoured with two top prizes at the 2012 Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) Achievement Awards in Sacramento, CA. The Last Reef won both Best Original Score and Best Sound Design

See below for a link to Michael Reid's review in the Times Colonist (Oct 26)

Fly across iridescent tropical reefs, brush through a cloud of a million jellyfish, visit an alien world where the closer you look, the more you see.

We think of reefs as exotic, distant places with little connection to our everyday world. Yet there are many kinds of reef, each of them a living city beneath the sea, where plants and animals congregate in mutual benefit. They have a parallel existence to ours, distant yet undoubtedly connected.

Each of them is a hotspot of biodiversity as vital to life on earth as the rainforests. Just as the Amazon has its secrets, so too do the reefs. Reefs have been molding and shaping our shorelines, literally forming islands and mountains, for millions of years. Yet in our lifetime, they have come under threat: human activity is altering the chemistry of the oceans. As the sea becomes more acidic, coral, shell and bone begin to crumble.

Shot on location in Palau, French Polynesia, Mexico, and The Bahamas, The Last Reef takes us on a global journey to explore our connection with the ocean’s complex, parallel worlds. New underwater technology takes us into the heart of the reef, revealing a habitat more diverse and more colorful than you ever imagined…

What would it mean to us if one of these vibrant wonderlands were to become the last reef?

CLICK HERE TO READ MICHAEL REID'S TIMES COLONIST REVIEW

Mysteries of the Great Lakes
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes

ENDING June, 13th, 2013 | It takes a drop of water nearly 400 years to travel from the headwaters of Lake Superior to the edge of Lake Ontario. Along the way, the water passes by towering cliffs dotted with early Native American pictographs, caribou and moose grazing on the shores, over giant prehistoric sturgeon lurking among thousands of shipwrecks and past nearly 40 million people who live along the more than 10,000 miles of coastline. It is a dramatic journey through some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. Now, you can witness the Mysteries of theGreat Lakes on the only screen large enough to reveal them – IMAX!

Rating (G) | Click HERE for the official film website.