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MONDAY May 14, 2012 - 9:00AM Open to student bookings only - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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MONDAY May 14, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide
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THURSDAY May 24, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide Kindergarten - Grade 4 |
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FRIDAY May 25, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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MONDAY May 28, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide CLICK HERE for Activity Guide |
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WEDNESDAY, May 30, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public, additional seats available to be booked. Mysteries of Egypt will transport students 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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THURSDAY May 31, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. Rating: G CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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FRIDAY June 8, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide
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MONDAY June 11, 2012 - 9:00AM Open for student bookings only - additional tickets available. 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”). CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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FRIDAY June 15, 2012 - 9:00AM Open for student bookings only - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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TUESDAY June 19, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. Rating: G CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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WEDNESDAY June 20, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide CLICK HERE for Activity Guide |
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THURSDAY June 21, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide CLICK HERE for Activity Guide |
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FRIDAY June 22, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. 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. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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To book your group or class, please contact group sales at rbcm_groups@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca |
