- Grand Canyon Adventure 3D
- Hurricane On The Bayou
- Greece: Secrets Of The Past
- Coral Reef Adventure

Grand Canyon Adventure 3D

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Set against the immense backdrop of the majestic Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Adventure 3D takes IMAX® Theatre audiences on an exhilarating river-rafting adventure down the Colorado River in the company of a team of explorers who are committed to bringing awareness to global water issues. One of the world’s mightiest rivers, the Colorado no longer reaches the sea. Every drop of river water is allocated to agriculture and populations along the way, many of whom don’t even realize their connection to the river. No water remains for the river’s end—the Colorado Delta—once a thriving estuary that supported the most diverse biosphere in North America.

The river journey is a compelling and emotional personal story for our main characters, two fathers and their 18-year old daughters. Our cinematic guides include the renowned Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading advocate for water conservation and river restoration, and his daughter Kick. They are joined by Wade Davis, an ethno-botanist and author who has traveled the world studying other cultures, and his daughter Tara.  Shana Watahomigie, who grew up at the Canyon’s edge with her Havasupai family, is their Grand Canyon guide.   As the expedition journeys down river, audiences learn about the challenges we face and the many opportunities that exist for conserving and restoring our watersheds.  Narrated by Meryl Streep and featuring music by Dave Matthews Band.

Hurricane On The Bayou (2006)

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A giant screen production featuring one of the most vibrant places in America—the Louisiana bayou and the City of New Orleans—was originally slated as a film about the ongoing erosion of the region’s wetlands ecosystem. This erosion, at the speed of one acre every thirty minutes, is constantly removing the natural buffers that protect the region from hurricanes.  The filmmakers were in the process of simulating the effects of a hypothetical Category 5 hurricane when Hurricane Katrina struck. Beyond tragically illustrating the warnings contained in the film—and causing the filmmakers to return to New Orleans to record Katrina’s aftermath—Katrina became the most devastating and costly natural disaster in US history.

This unprecedented before-during-and-after coverage, in the tremendous scale of IMAX® photography and with an unparalleled musical soundtrack, tells the Louisiana story as no one else has. It reveals individual stories of human experience along with the environmental story of destruction. The wetlands that have been depleted by human intervention form the same ecosystem from which people receive wealth, cultural vitality, and protection from deadly storm surges.  This poignant human-nature relationship is revealed as an intricate tapestry of interdependence.

Greece: Secrets Of The Past (2006)

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A sweeping archeological journey back in time, the film sets out on a quest to uncover the buried secrets of one of the world’s most enlightened societies—ancient Greece—that for 100 years, from approximately 500 BC to 400 BC, became the center of human thought and creativity and laid many of the foundations for the way we live today.  At the heart of the film’s journey is Dr. Christos Doumas, an impassioned Greek archeologist who is working to piece together the puzzle of ancient Greece and better understand its influence on life today. Also playing a key role is fellow scientist, Dr. George Vougioukalakis, a volcanologist studying the devastating explosion on the island of Santorini in 1646 BC, which changed life in the Aegean Sea forever.  Doumas weaves a compelling story about how archeology has unearthed the ways in which the early Greek’s rapid progress in science, politics, philosophy, sports and art in turn resulted in perhaps the greatest explosion in human advancement ever seen.  Helping bring Greece into contemporary focus with her trademark wit and style is the film’s narrator, Greek-American Nia Vardalos, the writer and star of the runaway hit feature My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Coral Reef Adventure (2003)

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Coral Reef Adventure follows the real-life expedition of two ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers, Howard and Michele Hall, on a daring 10-month journey to document some of the world’s largest, most beautiful and most endangered coral reefs. On their journey from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the majestic islands of Fiji and Tahiti and the mysterious Rangiroa atoll, the Halls meet with scientists and naturalists such as famed ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau and deep reef ichthyologist Richard Pyle, who are all part of a growing global effort to build a stronger understanding of these fragile and essential ecosystems.  Featuring songs written and recorded by Crosby, Stills & Nash, and narrated by Liam Neeson.