IMAX Educational Movies

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IMAX GALAPAGOS IN 3D - Now Available!

Presented by the Smithsonian Institution and IMAX and using IMAX 3D technology, Galapagos vividly documents an 8 week expedition to the islands and surrounding waters.  Part adventure, part scientific expedition, part personal quest, and part fantastic voyage, this unprecedented non-fiction film takes audiences on a journey with marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin, from the Smithsonian Inst.'s Museum of Natural History, on her first trips to the famed Galapagos Islands.  An amazing immersive cinematic experience, Galapagos delves deep into the largely unknown waters surrounding the volcanic archipelago to explore the natural wonders of a realm that is truly a living natural science laboratory.   

More information can be found at the film's website HERE.

IMAX BORN TO BE WILD - Available Now Born To Be Wild 3D is an inspiring love story about dedication and the remarkable bond between humans and animals. This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue them - saving endangered species on life at a time.  Stunningly captured in IMAX 3D, Born To Be Wild 3D is a heartwarming adventure transporting moviegoers into the lush rainforests of Borneo with world-renowned primatologist Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas, and across the rugged Kenyan savannah with celebrated elephant authority Dame Daphne Sheldrick, as they and their teams rescue, rehabilitate, and return incredible animals back to the wild. More information can be found at the film's website HERE. Educator Resource Guide for this film

MYSTERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES, Available Now 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 the 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 the Great Lakes on the only screen large enough to reveal them!  A Science North Production. More movie information can be found at the film's website HERE. Educator Resource Guide for this film

IMAX HUBBLE 3D, Available Now Through the power of IMAX 3D, Hubble 3D will enable moviegoers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space-walking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult and important tasks in NASA's history.  Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, the film will offer an inspiring look into the Hubble Space Telescope's legacy.  More movie information can be found at the film's website HERE. Educator Resource Guide for this film (Grades 3-5) Educator Resource Guide for this film (Grades 6-8)

IMAX UNDER THE SEA 3D, Available Now Under the Sea 3D will transport moviegoers to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Austria, New Guinea, and other in the Indo-Pacific region, allowing them to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea.  It will offer a uniquely inspirational and entertaining way to explore the impact that global climate change has had on ocean wilderness. More movie information can be found at the film's website HERE. Educator Resource Guide for this film (Grades 3-5) Educator Resource Guide for this film (Grades 6-8)

IMAX SPACE STATION 3D, Available Now

As astoundingly beautiful as it is technically dazzling, Space Station 3D is the first-ever IMAX 3D space film.  Audiences will travel 220 miles above Earth at 17,500 mph to experience Space Station 3D - the greatest engineering feat since landing a man on the Moon.  Space Station 3D is the story of this unique partnership of 16 nations building a laboratory in outer space -- a permanent facility for the study of the effects of long-duration exposure to zero gravity and the necessary first step towards the global cooperative effort needed if man is to someday set foot on Mars.  More movie information can be found at the film's website HERE. Educator Resource Guide for this film

IMAX DEEP SEA IN 3D - Available NOW!

Sea life in a whole new way. Deep Sea, a new underwater adventure from the filmmakers behind the successful IMAX film Into the Deep, transports audiences deep below the ocean surface to discover some of the most unique, colorful creatures on the planet, from the bizarre rainbow nudibranch to the giant Pacific octopus. Through the magic of IMAX and IMAX 3D, movie-goers will be able to witness their humorous, threatening and sometimes peculiar behavior as they depend on one another for survival to maintain a balanced ecosystem. Deep Sea is narrated by Oscar®-nominated actors Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.

More movie information can be found at the film's website HERE.
Educator Guide HERE