Search for the Great Sharks takes you on a round-the-globe expedition to reveal some of the world’s largest sharks and to witness them at close range. From the coast of California to the remote reaches of South and Western Australia, the film pursues Blue Sharks, Whale Sharks, and the most notorious of all, the Great White Shark.
Seasons features the music of Vivaldi in a celebration of Earth’s changing cycles. Spring’s awakening, summer’s growth, autumn’s harvest, and winter’s dormancy are beautifully portrayed, along with a look at Earth as a planet, the sun as a star, and the relationship between the two. Length: 32:00
The Secret of Life on Earth begins where life apparently began three-and-a-half billion years ago. The film shows some of the key developments in plants that made possible the web of life. Micro, macro, and time-lapse photography delivers close-ups of special relationships between plants and animals: barnacles feeding, microscopic plankton, tiny grasses flowering, and pollinators at work. The interdependence between plants and animals is portrayed as an unwritten "green" contract." Length: 40:00
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure tells the true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 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 two years in the barren, frigid Antarctic when their ship, the Endurance, was caught in pack ice and eventually crushed. Length: 40:00
A young sign painter, teetering precariously atop a giant ladder, attempts to put the finishing touches on a sign above a theater’s giant screen. One slip sends the artist and his paint cans flying in all directions. In IMAX 3D, the images come close to submerging the viewer in primary and pastel colors of all shapes and sizes. Paint Misbehavin’ is the result of the development of IMAX's SANDDE (Stereo Animation Drawing Device) system, a software technology that enables animators to produce stereoscopic animated films [...]
Pandorama, a contemporary twist on the myth of Pandora’s Box, features 2,500 images hand-drawn directly onto film. No camera was used in the production of this short. Instead, images were hand-drawn, scratched, painted, and rubber-stamped directly onto pieces of clear leader and junk footage. Length: 3:00
This film provides a glimpse of 10 provinces of Indonesia, juxtaposing the rich cultural background and celebrations with modern-day activities such as white-water rafting, caving, and cycle racing.
An overview of the community of Valencia which highlights festivals and the people. During an imaginary day, Passion for Life takes us throughout a Mediterranean region, on a trip full of color, flavor, and sound. Length: 8:00
El Pueblo del Sol (People of the Sun) captures not only the visual delights of Mexico today, but also grasps the day-to-day life of a people in a land filled with promise. The film contains rich images of such natural beauties as the Isla Contoy in the Caribbean, Copper Canyon in the Chihuahua Sierra, the Paricutin Volcano, and Ensenada's Bay. Length: 25:00
The first recreation of Abraham Lincoln's assassination ever to be filmed in the historic Ford's Theatre, The Persistence of Dreams is a real-time depiction of one of the most tragic events in American history. The story explores the little-known fact that Lincoln actually dreamt about his murder only a few days before it took place. Length: 4:00