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EVEREST
Approx. Running time: 43 minutes
Everest is the dramatic true story of a team of climbers who found hope, strength and triumph in the wake of tragedy. Their successful ascent of Mount Everest just days after fellow mountaineers and friends died there, is a compelling story about the human spirit and a mountain they love, respect and sometimes fear. EVEREST takes students across creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs, through a harrowing rescue, and into the danger zone of oxygen-thin altitude.
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Mystery of the Nile
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
One show only - scheduled for Thursday, March 14 at 10am
A team of explorers set out on an epic quest to become the first to complete a full descent of the world's greatest river, the Blue Nile and the Nile, from source to sea. After four months the expedition finally reached the mouth of the Nile at the Mediterranean Sea, becoming the first in history to complete this 3,250-mile journey. Their amazing journey is the basis for the IMAX® film, Mystery of the Nile.
Mystery of the Nile tells the story of this emotional and historic expedition while also exploring the cultural and environmental links between the Ethiopian, Sudanese and Egyptian civilizations. Both a captivating human adventure and a serious in-depth look at this most fascinating yet little-known region, Mystery of the Nile promises another exciting and educational giant screen experience.
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HUBBLE
Approx. Running time: 45 Minutes
Experience the gripping story -- full of hope, crushing disappointment, dazzling ingenuity, bravery, and triumph. HUBBLE is the seventh awe-inspiring film from the award-winning IMAX Space Team. www.imax.com/hubble
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio and vividly captured with IMAX technology, HUBBLE recounts the amazing journey of the most important scientific instrument since Galileo's original telescope and the greatest success in space since the Moon Landing -- the Hubble Space Telescope. Audiences will accompany the space walking astronauts as they attempt some of the most difficult tasks ever undertaken in NASA's history, and will experience up close the awesome power of the launches, the heartbreaking setbacks, and the dramatic rescues of this most powerful story.
HUBBLE will also reveal the cosmos as never before, allowing viewers of all ages to explore the grandeur of the nebulae and galaxies, the birth and death of stars, and some of the greatest mysteries of our celestial surroundings, all in amazing IMAX.
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Rating: G
Running time: 43 minutes without trailers
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BORN TO BE WILD
Approx. Running time: 45 Minutes
“Born to Be Wild’ is one of the most inspirational films I have ever seen! Filmed beautifully and with great passion, ‘Born to Be Wild’ is a must-see for all ages.”
Sandie Newton / CBS-TV
BORN TO BE WILD is an inspired story of love, dedication and the remarkable bond between humans and animals. This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them -- saving endangered species one life at a time. Stunningly captured in IMAX, BORN TO BE WILD is a heartwarming adventure transporting moviegoers into the lush rainforests of Borneo with world-renowned primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas, and across the rugged Kenyan savannah with celebrated elephant authority Dame Daphne Sheldrick, as they and their team rescue, rehabilitate and return these incredible animals back to the wild. Narrated by Academy-Award® winner Morgan Freeman. This Warner Bros. film is produced and distributed by IMAX Corporation.
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BEAVERS
Approx. Running time: 35 minutes
BEAVERS plunges the viewer into the aquatic habitat of nature's greatest engineers for an intimate look at the life of one beaver family. With breathtaking underwater photography, the viewer travels inside the lodge for a rare look at these charming and industrious creatures. Shot on location in Ontario, Canada and in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the film follows the beavers as they overcome dangers, grow, play and transform the world around them.
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MYSTERIES OF EGYPT
Approx. Running time: 40 minutes
Mysteries of Egypt will transport you to a distant time and place where the Nile River Valley cuts an emerald swath through the desert sands. In the flood-fed richness of this land rose an ancient kingdom whose culture has strongly influenced the western world. Its massive architecture and the intrigue of such personages as Nefertiti and Tutankhamen capture the imagination.
Around the old capital of Memphis, near modern Giza, rulers such as Ramses II built massive funerary pyramids to house them in their afterlife and farther up the river, temples were built to the pharaohs and their gods at Luxor and Karnak.
With a dedicated team of scientists, MYSTERIES OF EGYPT will explore these magnificent edifices and the civilization that built them, bringing their wonder to life.
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Hurricane on the Bayou
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU takes viewers on a breathtaking tour of one of the most vibrant places in America, the Louisiana bayou and the city of New Orleans, a place overflowing with life, music and natural beauty. Here, in the region's bountiful coastal wetlands, alligators, humans and other wildlife have lived in harmony for centuries.
Tragically, these wetlands are eroding into the sea at the speed of one acre every thirty minutes, leaving the entire region more vulnerable to major hurricanes. HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU offers an emotional portrayal of this environmental calamity and the staggering effects of one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history, Hurricane Katrina.
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Forces of Nature
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
A great paradox underpins our existence: the forces that make life possible also imperil it. In Forces of Nature, students will experience the spectacle of tornadoes, floods, erupting volcanoes, hurricanes and their aftermath.
Students will also gain insight, as they learn how these natural disasters occur and what scientists and engineers are doing to predict and prepare for events and to minimize damage in the future.
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TORNADO ALLEY
Approx. Running time: 43 minutes
Join Storm Chasers star Sean Casey and the researchers of VORTEX 2, the most ambitious effort ever made to understand the origins and evolution of tornadoes, on this heart-pounding science adventure. Armed with a 70mm camera, a fleet of customized vehicles designed to withstand gale force winds, torrential rains and unrelenting hail, and an arsenal of the most advanced weather measurement instruments ever created, the stars of TORNADO ALLEY take audiences on a thrilling quest to experience a tornado's destructive power at point blank range. Experience the adrenaline and the science of nature's most dramatic phenomena!
Traversing the "severe weather capital of the world," TORNADO ALLEY documents two unprecedented missions seeking to encounter one of Earth's most awe-inspiring events -- the birth of a tornado. Filmmaker Sean Casey's personal quest to capture the birth of a tornado with a 70mm camera takes viewers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of the storm. A team of equally driven scientists, the VORTEX2 researchers, experience the relentless strength of nature's elemental forces as they literally surround tornadoes and the supercell storms that form them, gathering the most comprehensive severe weather data ever collected. This science adventure reveals the beauty and the power of some of our planet's most extreme -- and least understood -- weather phenomena. Rating: (G)
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TO THE ARCTIC
Approx. Running time: 45 Minutes
"The Arctic is melting out from under the paws (and flippers) of some of the world's most magnificent animals, a message cloaked in two unassailable truths - motherhood and cute babies - in the new IMAX film, To The Arctic."
- Jay Stone, Post Media, Ottawa
To The Arctic was honoured with the two top prizes at the 2012 Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) Achievement Awards in Sacramento Sept. 17-20, 2012. To The Arctic won awards for Best Film Short Subject (in a first-ever tie with Rocky Mountain Express) and Best Film For Lifelong Learning, which honours the film with the greatest educational impact.
An extraordinary journey to the top of the world, the documentary adventure “To The Arctic” tells the ultimate tale of survival. Narrated by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep, the film takes audiences on a never-before-experienced journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her twin seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.
Captivating, adventurous and intimate footage brings moviegoers up close and personal with this family’s struggle to survive in a frigid environment of melting ice, immense glaciers, spectacular waterfalls, and majestic snow-bound peaks.
Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX® Filmed Entertainment present a MacGillivray Freeman Film, “To The Arctic,” a One World One Ocean presentation, directed by two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Greg MacGillivray (“The Living Sea,” “Dolphins”). Filmed in 15/70mm IMAX, “To The Arctic” is written and edited by Stephen Judson (“Everest”), and produced by Shaun MacGillivray (“Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk”).
The musical score is by Steve Wood, with songs by Paul McCartney.
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UNDER THE SEA
Approx. Running time: 45 Minutes
This IMAX adventure will transport you to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea and others in the Indo-Pacific region, allowing you to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea. It offers a uniquely inspirational and entertaining way to explore the beauty and natural wonder of the oceans, as well as the impact of global climate change.
This Warner Brothers film is narrated by Jim Carrey. UNDER THE SEA is directed by Howard Hall and follows his last very popular film DEEP SEA.
Rating: (G)
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SEA MONSTERS: A Prehistoric Adventure
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure transports the audience back to the Late Cretaceous, when a great inland sea divided North America. A curious and adventuresome dolichorhynchops travels through the most dangerous oceans in history, encountering long-necked plesiosaurs, giant turtles, enormous fish, fierce sharks, and the most dangerous sea monster of all, the mosasaur.
The film connects paleontology digs from around the globe into a compelling story about scientists working as detectives to answer questions about this ancient and mysterious ocean world.
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OCEAN OASIS
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
One of the most beautiful underwater places on earth, you'll plunge into the wildly spectacular Sea of Cortes and discover extraordinary sea life and swim with whales, dolphins, sharks and manta rays that are so enormous, they almost defy belief. Then you’ll come ashore to soar above the breathtaking snow-capped peaks of Baja California and explore the pristine beauty of the nearby tropical desert. This is an unforgettable IMAX experience in two untamed paradises you may not have known exist side by side . . . until now.
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WHALES
Approx. Running time: 40 minutes
Meet blue, orca, white whales and dolphins while following the humpbacks in their annual cycles of feast and famine as they travel thousands of miles from the krill blooms off the frigid coast of Alaska to calve in the warm waters of Hawaii. Featuring spectacular underwater footage of mothers, calves and escorts, Whales reveals many little-known aspects of these elusive creatures and celebrates the music, play and incredible strength of the earth’s largest inhabitants.
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OCEAN MEN: EXTREME DIVE
Approx. Running time: 42 minutes
Please note that this film is unavailable for booking until March 31, 2013
Discover the beauty and competitiveness of a little known extreme sport where participants dive more than 91 meters (300ft) and return to the surface on just one breath of air.
It's an extreme sport that also produces extreme rivalries. Two men with very different approaches to the sport are featured in this film. Their intense rivalry highlights the amazing ability of the human body to adapt to the most demanding situations. Each dive is a wonder of science and just as fascinating are the wildly different approaches each man takes. Their colourful lives and unyielding passion for this unique sport will thrill, inspire, and excite while fostering a respect for life itself.
One critics review: The beauty of the film lies beneath the surface. Absolutely religiously beautiful, underwater cams capture these angelic swimmers, shirtless, fearlessly swim-dancing with sharks and dolphins. Shots from under these divers capture them as they float toward the sky like superheroes. You could watch them swim for hours. Truly inspirational -- the most pure elements of the human spirit reflecting light from the waves above.
Rating: (G)
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Coral Reef Adventure
Approx. Running time: 40 minutes
Coral Reef Adventure follows the real-life expedition of ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall. The Halls guide us to the islands and sun-drenched waters of the South Pacific, including Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Fiji, Tahiti and the mysterious depths of Rangiroa Atoll, to document the health and beauty of coral reefs. On the giant screen, you'll feel like you’re diving and exploring right alongside them! Narrated by Liam Neeson.
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DINOSAURS ALIVE!
Approx. Running time: 45 Minutes
DINOSAURS ALIVE is a global adventure of science and discovery -- featuring the earliest dinosaurs of the Triassic Period to the monsters of the Cretaceous "reincarnated" life-sized for the giant IMAX® screen. Audiences will journey with some of the world's preeminent paleontologists as they uncover evidence that the descendents of dinosaurs still walk (or fly) among us. From the exotic, trackless expanses and sand dunes of Mongolia's Gobi Desert to the dramatic sandstone buttes of New Mexico, the film will follow paleontologists as they explore some of the greatest dinosaur finds in history. Through the magic of scientifically accurate computer-generated animation, these newly discovered creatures, and some familiar favorites, will come alive... in a big way!
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HORSES: The Story of Equus
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
HORSES: THE STORY OF EQUUS is the story of three horses who were all born on the same night but their lives take very different paths. One becomes a racehorse and her story takes us into that extraordinary world, where the ancestry of every horse can be traced back to 1791 and where their overwhelming instinct to run is highly valued. The second is trained as an equestrian horse, an eventer. But this horse is a unique individual, stubborn and temperamental. After a spectacular failure in competition, he is trained again, this time as a stunt horse in the movies and it's in that world that his capacity for learning and his individual nature triumph. The third horse goes on a completely different journey. He escapes from people and joins the feral herds in the wild. Out there, undisturbed by human contact, the horses revert to natural, herd behavior and this horse becomes our conduit into understanding what horses may have been like before we domesticated them.
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RIDE AROUND THE WORLD
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
RIDE AROUND THE WORLD takes you on a spectacular journey through Argentina, British Columbia, Chile, Mexico, Morocco, Spain and Texas to meet vaqueros, gauchos, baqueanos and cowboys - all part of a single global horse culture, an unbroken trail stretching back 1,500 years. These rugged men and women were often the first to settle the wild frontiers, helping lay the foundation in language, music and dress for the entire New World. Filmed in exotic and rarely visited locations, and including some of the most fantastic action footage ever seen on the IMAX screen, it is a profound visual and cultural experience that will thrill audiences of every nationality, while uniting them in a shared heritage.
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African Adventure: Safari in the Okavango
Approx. Running time: 43 Minutes
For many of us, Africa remains a distant and inaccessible place. Now however, there is an opportunity to visit the Okavango Delta, one of the most unique wilderness areas on this fascinating continent. Join South African zoologist Liesl Eichenberger on this unique photo safari for a thrilling adventure in the flooded desert. Through stunning wildlife photography, get "up close and personal" with a great variety of big-game animals, crocodiles, hippos, elephants, and lions, and observe one of the largest bird concentrations on the planet.
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WILD SAFARI
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
GET UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH THE ANIMALS OF SOUTH AFRICA.
The film travels to some of South Africa's most famous national parks and game reserves while discovering the beauty of a country that has the greatest variety of ecosystems of any on the African continent. Led by South African zoologist, Liesl Eichenberger from the Shamwari Game Reserve, viewers go in search of South Africa's "Big Five" - the African elephant, rhino, Cape buffalo, leopard and lion. Wild Safari 3D: A South African Adventure will motivate students interest in the animals, habitats and geography of South Africa and the unique environments found there.
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Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey
Approx. Running time: 40 Minutes
PULSE: A STOMP ODYSSEY is an exploration of the sights and sounds of continents and cultures, guided by the internationally acclaimed performers of the sensational stage show STOMP. Audiences will travel a world brought brilliantly alive on the large-format screen and will discover the universal language of rhythm. The film is a unique and extraordinary large-format experience -- a visual and auditory celebration of diversity and culture, rhythm and humanity. It will introduce audiences to percussion groups from locales and backgrounds as disparate as Timbalada of Brazil to Les Percussion de Guinee of West Africa, from a 25,000 year-old tribal tradition in Botswana to a modern flamenco dancer in Spain.
Rating: G | Running Time:45 minutes
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VAN GOGH: Brush with Genius
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
“[Van Gogh] provides the visceral thrill of seeing numerous masterworks by a painter in visually dazzling fashion…stunning….”
-- Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
“The comparison between the painted and celluloid-caught landscapes becomes truly breathtaking in IMAX...."
-- Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Van Gogh leads viewers on a journey through the surprisingly short 9-year period of the artist's career during which he painted more than 900 paintings. Told from the perspectives of three main characters -- Ellen, a museum researcher, Peter, a film director, and Vincent van Gogh himself -- Van Gogh follows in the artist's footsteps, traveling from the Netherlands to Auvers-sur-Oise and passing through Arles, Saint-Rémy and Paris. From the dazzling yellow of the artist's famous cornfields to the deep blue of his famous night sky, audiences will rediscover the source of some of the most important works in art history.
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WIRED TO WIN: Surviving the Tour de France
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
The subject of the film is the amazing ability of the human brain to overcome adversity, accomplish the near-impossible, and power each of us to victory and success in life.
The film illustrates these various abilities by following cyclists racing in the Tour De France. Over the course of the event, they'll be caught up in hair raising crashes, dramatic battles over the Alps and Pyrenees and action-packed descents down steep mountain roads. Their ultimate goal? The finish line on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
The film will raise the questions "how do they do this?" and "why do they do this?" Audiences will learn that the answers to these questions lie within the mind and the human brain itself.
Through a combination of cutting edge computer graphic digital animation, strong and inspiring personal stories and unprecedented IMAX giant screen footage, this film will entertain and, hopefully, inspire audiences of all ages.
This film will study of the various aspects of the human brain and its ability to help us achieve success in the face of what seem to be insurmountable obstacles.
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Journey into Amazing Caves
Approx. Running time: 40 Minutes
Journey into Amazing Caves tells the story of the mysterious world of the underground: the world’s most remote, unexplored caves. Follow two female cavers as they search for extreme living organisms in the ice caves of Greenland, the underwater caves of the Yucatan Peninsula, and the earth caves of the Little Grand Canyon. Featuring unprecedented footage from unique and forbidding ice caves, underwater caves, and terrestrial caves.
Wriggle through tiny, twisting passages, drop into gleaming blue labyrinths of ice, swim through flooded underground vaults, and enter a world so extreme the microscopic creatures who live there are called extremophiles. Circle the globe, stopping in the hot, lush Yucatán; dropping into barren, frozen Greenland and flying above the primitive red rock Arizona desert. And hold your breath as expedition leaders, Dr. Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach, rappel down steep cliffs into unmapped chambers, hoping to bring back startling new discoveries that may unlock new cures for human disease.
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Adventures in Wild California
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
Please note that this film is unavailable for booking until March 31, 2013
A virtual expedition that sends audiences careening down an icy, steep mountain face with snowboarders; twirling on thermals above the clouds with sky surfers; swimming through the oceans with otters and their surrogate human mother; excavating the very heart of a thirty-story tall Giant Sequoia with botanists and emerging from under the spray of one of California's biggest, surfable waves. The heart-pounding imagery recreates an experience of California's furthest edges few will ever know first-hand.
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Straight Up: Helicopters In Action
Approx. Running time: 40 minutes
Straight Up! showcases the vital roles helicopters play in modern civil and military aviation around the world.
Helicopters save lives every day. These unique machines pick up injured people off roads, save them from sinking ships, pluck them from burning buildings, and pull them out of raging floods. Rotorcraft, including helicopters and tiltrotors, perform widespread critical public-service operations including search and rescue, law enforcement, resource development, and priority transportation. Millions of people owe their lives to the special capabilities of these aircraft.
Students will travel with helicopter crews as they respond to real-world needs, including a high-voltage live-wire repair, a high-sea rescue, a drug bust, scientific research, endangered species relocation, humanitarian aid, land-and-sea military maneuvers, and more.
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