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- To The Arctic 3D
- Everest: Conquering Thin Air 3D
- Humpback Whales 3D
- African Journey 3D

To The Arctic 3D

To The Arctic 3D was filmed in Alaska, Canada, Svalbard and in the waters of the Arctic Circle. (Click image to enlarge)

To The Arctic 3D is an extraordinary journey to a place few of us will ever experience. Yet the Arctic is home to people, animals and sea creatures well-suited to this icy world.  It is an annual destination each spring and summer to countless birds, animals and ocean-dwellers who come to the Arctic from all corners of the world to give birth to their young and feed on the bounty of life that exists here.  But dramatic changes are occurring in the Arctic that threaten to disrupt this delicate balance of life.  Nowhere is climate change happening more rapidly than in the Arctic.

Using the power of IMAX® film technology, To The Arctic will transport audiences to the ocean and tundra of the far north where they will witness the amazing richness and complexity of this environment, and how humankind has begun to change it.  Viewers will dive underwater with a polar bear and its cub and discover a world beneath the ice where corals and odd creatures such as the Greenland shark thrive. They will fly above a thundering herd of caribou making their way to their calving ground, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They will gaze across hundreds of miles of snow-bound peaks and ridges and wonder at the vast expanses of floating ice in the Arctic Ocean, an exquisite spectacle of sapphire white. The stunning beauty of the Arctic will be palpable in this 40-minute giant screen film that aims to cultivate a sense of our connectedness, relevance, and impact on this special place--and the Arctic’s influence on the rest of our planet.

Everest: Conquering Thin Air 3D

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In 1996, MacGillivray Freeman Films filmed an amazing story that unfolded on the tallest mountain on Earth.  In May of that year, Mt. Everest claimed its deadliest season.  The resulting giant screen film, Everest, became the highest grossing giant screen documentary film of all time.  Based on the film’s overwhelming international success, MacGillivray Freeman Films returned to the mountain in 2007 to reveal more of its secrets for a new film Everest: Conquering Thin Air.

In this film, a medical research team led by Dr. Mike Grocott climbs to the summit of Mt. Everest, motivated by a dream that their scientific endeavors would contribute to life-saving medical treatments.  They are there to study hypoxia—a deficiency of oxygen in the blood often experienced by climbers but also by patients in intensive care units.  

This high-drama story turns Mt. Everest into the world’s highest laboratory.  It tells the story of a high-altitude rescue of three injured climbers and includes the first-ever IMAX® aerials of climbers summiting Mt. Everest.  Researchers engage in innovative medical testing on more than 200 trekkers to Everest Base Camp, and never-before-attempted tests on the summit of Mt. Everest itself.  Everest: Conquering Thin Air documents the largest scientific expedition ever conducted at high altitude, whose research findings could lead to more than 50 new medical research projects and ultimately improve critical care in hospitals.

Humpback Whales 3D

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The ocean’s Humpback whales have inspired a 3D giant screen film that will take audiences to the underwater world and to the faraway places where Humpbacks live and thrive.  From the clear turquoise waters of the South Pacific to Africa, Hawaii and Alaska, this 40-minute ocean adventure will reveal what we know about this giant mammal and what mysteries scientists are determined to solve.  The fifty-foot whales will appear life-size on the giant screen.  Audiences will swim alongside them, and be entertained by their high-spirited, full body acrobatics as the whales leap, twirl, lunge and splash their way onto the giant screen.  Using the magic of computer graphics, viewers will become like the fabled Jonah – and be swallowed by a whale in a fun, water-churning roller-coaster ride into the giant’s maw.  We’ll see mothers caring for their young and listen to males sing a song that fills the theatre.  Because international laws now ban whaling, more than 100,000 Humpbacks live and travel off our shores.  They play, they need a good meal, they care for their young and breathe the air we breathe.  And Humpback Whales will sing their song for audiences everywhere.

African Journey 3D

No other continent showcases such wondrous richness and diversity of wildlife across wild lands.  As only an IMAX® theatre experience can deliver, African Journey 3D will transform the audience’s imagination into a perceptively touchable, immersive exploration and journey.  From the rugged desolation of the deserts, to the serene beauty of the savannahs, to the lush greenery of the rainforests, Africa’s majestic backdrop supports the most diverse population of wildlife.  Exotic beauty, amusing behaviors, and with singularly unique characteristics, Africa’s wildlife – elephants, giraffes, lions, wildebeests and gorillas – will jump off the screen, sing in our ears and thunder into the hearts of the audience. The audience’s emotional bond intersects with the animals’ familial traits and with the daily, unforgiving balance to survive. Their survival clearly interconnects all life.  Keenly recognized is the interdependence between our actions and their survival as climate change and local human impact erodes away at their narrow margin of life.