Tag: imax

Short but poignant, D-Day: Normandy uses the IMAX format to deliver the needed history behind this world-altering event.

Turtle Planet Gathering dazzling images from the ocean floor, Turtle Odyssey brings truly stellar photography into this condensed story. The focus is a turtle – obviously – named Bunji. …

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Ocean Documentary Captivating underwater footage from Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of the legendary Jacques Cousteau, explores the awesome variety of marine life from Fiji to the Bahamas in …

Riding the Waves The timing of Aircraft Carrier: Guardian of the Seas is perfect. While injecting scenes of naval battle history and warfare, the main arc concerns the Rim …

Hackman Speaks for His Own A mixture of historical recollections and informative short, We, the Marines follows the training methods of the US Marine Corps. That’s not necessarily special. …

Dreaming in HDR Jeff Bridges narrates this IMAX feature that, ironically, happens to feature bridges. Clearly, an engineer planned that too. Dream Big follows a selection of engineers, all …

Park It Here Released to large format theaters in 2015, the Robert Redford-narrated National Park Adventures adores the sights of America’s parks system. Numerous canyons, rivers, mountains, and other …

Wonderland Actor Victor Garber narrates Wonders of the Arctic and without any irony regarding his role in James Cameron’s Titanic. And yes, Garber discusses ice and icebergs. They come …

Purely stunning IMAX’s modern nature documentaries continue their fight for conservation, The Last Reef more so than others. Stern, even foreboding, this 2012 short opens with glamorous images of …

Sizable Humpback Whales primarily reveals what is unknown about these mammals. After spending a century slaughtering them for oil, recent research peered into their life cycle. And still, the …

Riding the Rails Filled with marvelous images of steam locomotives riding a treacherous track in the Canadian Rockies, this IMAX presentation ranks among the large format elite. Rocky Mountain …

Flying Away Rather than rely only on its calming, vivid cinematography, Flight of the Butterflies hones in on Fred and Norah Urquhart’s life’s work. They spent decades tracking the …