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- DirectorRon FrickeCarefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioImage and music are intertwined in this third collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. The film was produced to celebrate the World Wildlife Fund's Biological Diversity Campaign. The film combines images of nature with pulsing rhythms in a Microcosmos (1997) meets Koyaanisqatsi (1983) spectacle.
- DirectorDonald BrittainThrough the use of multi-image compositions and giant IMAX format full-frame shots, Tiger Child expresses a poetic vision of civilization at the dawn of the 1970s, filmed on locations around the world as a travelogue of the human spirit.
- DirectorGraeme FergusonA fast-paced portrait depicting the iconic rugged Canadian landscape and wildlife of north-western Ontario, as well as highlighting the diverse lifestyles of the area's inhabitants, North of Superior was the first motion picture shot entirely full-frame in the giant screen IMAX format.
- DirectorRoger Tilton
- DirectorDavid MackayStarsStompin' Tom Connors
- DirectorRoger Tilton
- DirectorGraeme FergusonStarsChief Dan GeorgeJames WhitmoreMade for screening at the U.S. Pavilion at the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane Washington, USA, which had a Native-American environmental theme, MAN BELONGS TO THE EARTH depicts the history of air, water, and earth pollution, and how environmentalists are trying to solve these problems using various technologies. Outlining the conflict between developmental progress and environmentalism, the final message of how to manage the Earth in the film is "We just have to decide what we want to do". In spite of the film's date, MAN BELONGS TO THE EARTH is still one of the most balanced, currently relevant, and thus best films about the environment ever made.
- DirectorRoman KroitorStarsGunther Gebel-Williams
- DirectorGraeme FergusonStarsBarbara HamiltonDonald HarronEric HouseThe roads are full of snow and the bus is late. The Principal is mad at the bus driver but he is also sick.
- DirectorStephen LowStarsPaul NewmanRichard GarneauJim PaulsonFollow the Newman-Haas (Andretti) racing team through the process of building, testing, and racing for a season.
- DirectorBayley SilleckFrancis ThompsonENERGY! ENERGY! takes us in spectacular leaps from 17th century, where muscle power was the principle energy source, through the early use of wind and water mills, and we experience the coming of the Industrial Revolution, the steam engine, and the motor car. The film portrays the vitality and the problems of our modern technological society and our dependence upon fossil fuels while it explores dramatic new possibilities for the future.
- DirectorRoger Tilton
- DirectorBayley SilleckStarsMorgan FreemanWhere do we fit in with the universe? This film seeks to explore our place among the ever-expanding universe.
- DirectorJim FreemanGreg MacGillivrayStarsEllen BryJennifer Kaye EvansPeter WalkerProduced as the premier presentation for the Theatre of the National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution, takes the viewer on an aerial tour of America from a balloon ascension in the 1800's to a venture into space.
- DirectorDavid Mackay
- DirectorRobert Amram
- DirectorDennis MooreThis half-hour tour around the world shows some of nature's and man's most awesome works: aerial views of thousands of stampeding wildebeest, a snow-covered mountain range, and the majesty of Chartres Cathedral and the Taj Mahal.
- DirectorJohn Stoneman
- DirectorToni MyersStarsLeonardo DiCaprioScott D. AltmanMegan McArthurAn IMAX 3D camera chronicles the effort of 7 astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
- DirectorSean C. CaseyStarsDonald BurgessSean C. CaseyMandell FrazierA team of storm chasers track a tornado.
- DirectorStephen LowA history of the nation's first transcontinental railway accompanies a steam-train ride through the Canadian Rockies.
- DirectorGreg MacGillivrayStarsMeryl StreepLeanne AllisonKarsten HeuerA journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.
- DirectorRussell ScottStarsJonathan WhitmoreGreg PooleMiranda RichardsonAn extraordinary journey deep into space offering fresh insight into the origins and evolution of the universe.
- DirectorStephen JudsonGreg MacGillivrayStarsFerdiel BallamuCate BlanchettMenas MambasarAn underwater voyage to Indonesia to learn about its inhabitants such as giant rays and whale sharks as well as efforts being made in the region for ocean conservation.
- DirectorGreg MacGillivrayStarsRobert RedfordConrad AnkerMax LoweCoinciding with the National Parks Centennial, National Parks Adventure celebrates America's natural wonders. Narrated by Robert Redford, it follows a trio of adventurers and revisits Roosevelt and Muir's camping trip when the Park System was born.
- DirectorGreg MacGillivrayStarsJeff BridgesCris AcostaSteve BurrowsFrom the Great Wall of China and the world's tallest buildings to underwater robots, solar cars and smart, sustainable cities, DREAM BIG celebrates the human ingenuity behind engineering marvels.
- DirectorGreg MacGillivrayStarsJon BatisteAloe BlaccLil Buck"AMERICA'S MUSICAL JOURNEY" celebrates the unique diversity of cultures and creative risk-taking that characterize America, as told through the story of its music.
- DirectorColin LowStarsVlasta Vrana
- DirectorGeorge CaseyStarsRobert FoxworthMarvel at the awesome power of nature as photography displays the change evoked by a massive volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens and the renewal process which followed when the entire side of the mountain was blown away in billowing clouds of ash.
- DirectorTimothy Galfas
- DirectorGraeme FergusonStarsRobert L. CrippenNeil B. HutchinsonJames WhitmoreThe maiden voyage of Columbia, the first space shuttle, is recounted with footage shot on the ground and in space.
- DirectorLester Novros
- DirectorDennis Earl MooreStarsRoy CooperMargaret BlyeHugh GillinFlyers features the exploits of fictional pilot Kyle Murphy, a World War II veteran who turns his love of flying into an impassioned career - as an aircraft restorer and stunt pilot for the movies. Climb into the cockpit with him and experience the split-second timing of an emergency landing on an aircraft carrier deck. Roll and dive over France in a World War I Fokker Triplane. Witness a heart-stopping wing-walk on an aerobatic biplane high above the Grand Canyon. A tribute to all pilots, past and present.
- DirectorEddie GarrickStarsCorey BurtonCorinne CookHenry CordenA montage of science and technology images, including footage obtained through micro-photography, super-macro-photography, and computer animation. Part of the Omnisphere portion of EPCOT Center's Horizons attraction, the film is projected onto two OMNIMAX screens, each eight stories in diameter.
- DirectorAlberto Isaac
- DirectorGreg MacGillivrayStarsBlaine KiaKimo KahoanoPeter KaluaA Hawaiian teen has visions connected to an ancient bone fishhook that has been passed down through generations that transports him back to ancient Hawaii, were he meets his ancestors and learns the true meaning of the dances he has been taught through generations of ancestors to his modern self.
- DirectorJohn Sebert
- DirectorPerry Schwartz
- DirectorGreg MacGillivray
- DirectorJohn N. Smith
- DirectorGreg MacGillivrayStarsJames BurkeMonty CoxShane McCameyA documentary on the history on mankind's attempts to reach high speeds. Starting with the invention of the bicycle, going on to sports cars, cars with jet engines, rocket-powered cars, attempts to break the sound barrier, and rocket-engine airplanes. Each achievement is documented by title card indicating the speed reached in miles per hour.
- DirectorKieth MerrillStarsDaniel T. MajetichCoby JordanBruce SimballaFollow the scientific expedition of John Wesley Powell who mapped the canyon and boated the Colorado River rapids into modern times.
- DirectorEddie GarrickA classic in the world of computer animation, this original digital giant screen movie has been called "a computer-graphics Fantasia (1940)." It was first presented in 1984 at the annual SIGGRAPH (Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics) convention and since then screened in museums and theme parks worldwide. The film consists of visual segments developed by teams of computer-graphics artists and programmers at various research institutes and universities across North America, perhaps most famously at the New York Institute of Technology. These teams combined vector graphics, molecular modeling techniques, and simulated time-lapse photography with the mathematical calculations needed to pre-distort images for IMAX Dome projection. Segments include the famous robotic ant of Dick Lundin, Pat Hanrahan's and Paul Heckbert's flight through a lattice of metamorphosing crystals, a roller coaster ride over an abstract Japanese mountain terrain, and a trip through an intricate floral labyrinth (designed by Ned Greene). "The Magic Egg" was originally shown world-wide in the Imax/Omnimax film format.
- DirectorStephen LowSkyward examines the relationship between man, birds, and the environment at Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary in St. Petersburg, FL. Centering on the growth and development of a family of Canadian geese, and restoring nature's ecological balance.
- DirectorJohn Armstrong
- DirectorPierre WilleminStarsBernard Rapp
- DirectorMichel BraultDocument d'ouverture de l'exposition internationale de Vancouver en 1986, sur les moyens de transport à travers le temps, et le monde (de la marche à pied à la navette spaciale).
- Using 3D computer graphics, it traces the development of life from the formation of atomic nuclei in stars to the molecular structure of water and DNA, zooming the audience through the five-billion-year evolution of our solar system.
- DirectorSokin Bae
- DirectorRon FrickeHigh speed film and time-lapse photography combined to create breathtaking images of the night sky and Halley's Comet in this astronomical short subject.
- DirectorKieth MerrillStarsTom Bishop Jr.Sally BishopNadra MekoskiAn IMAX recount of the great history of Niagara Falls. Including the native legends, the historical importance, and the miracles of those who braved these mighty waters.
- DirectorTony IanzeloColin LowAbout transportation made for the Expo 86 World Fair in Vancouver.
- DirectorTony IanzeloStarsWalter Massey
- DirectorBayley SilleckFrancis ThompsonStarsF. Murray AbrahamWith a half-sized robotic prehistoric bird, the IMAX film demonstrates the principles of animal flight. Produced by the National Air and Space Museum, it also traces the early history of human flight and aviation. Voice: F. Murray Abraham.
- DirectorDavid ClarkBayley SilleckStarsMichael DouglasSterling NesbittAlan H. TurnerThis program presents some of the more recent ideas about dinosaurs that are gaining acceptance while following paleontologists searching for fossils over the decades in the Gobi Desert and New Mexico.
- DirectorNorma BaileyRichard CondieAaron Kim JohnstonA culture documentary with no narration released by IMAX in 1987.
- DirectorGreg MacGillivray
- DirectorEd AckermanColin MortonAn excerpt from Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (Sontata in primitive sounds) parades across the screen thanks to a Remington typewriter.
- DirectorGérald Calderon
- DirectorGérald Calderon
- DirectorStephen LowStarsEarl PenningtonSeveral beaver families in their wild surroundings. The interesting process of building a dam can be watched as well as the dangers arising from hungry bears and other influences on the new-built home.
- DirectorTony IanzeloLiu Hao XueStarsChristopher PlummerMichel GarneauBo Guan JunQin Shihuang conquered six powerful warring states and, in 221 BC, declared himself emperor of all China. During his reign, he introduced sweeping reforms, built a vast network of roads and connected the Great Wall of China which to this day stretches over 2400 kilometers. The film includes the first documentary footage of Qin's life-sized terracotta army, constructed almost 2,200 years ago for his tomb. The imperial system he created has endured for thousands of years, proving to be the world's most durable political structure. From the inner sanctum of Emperor Qin's royal palace to fierce battles with feudal kings, this lavish historical drama re-creates the glory and the terror of the Qin Dynasty.
- DirectorBeverly BaroffGreg MacGillivray
- DirectorMike HooverGreg MacGillivrayDerek HartStarsNina AnaniashviliLarisa EryominaRichard KileyWhat happens in a human body during high stress activities like extreme sports?
- DirectorYasushi Kase
- DirectorPierre ÉtaixStarsMac RonayRoger TrappValeria Bruni TedeschiImax 70mm is cleverly used in the P. Etaix featurette to show the semaphore system, based on connecting towers, presented by a Frenchman, Claude Chappe, in 1792, a start for practical telecommunications in the new industrial age of Europe.
- DirectorKieth MerrillStarsCasey BiggsEnrique SandinoMerrill ConnallyIn 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
- DirectorRoman KroitorNelson MaxIMAX Solido 3D film shows how photosynthesis converts sunlight into stored energy in plants, which subsequently provide energy to animals and man.
- DirectorBen BurttStarsJames BuchliToni MyersOn several Shuttle missions, Earth has been portrayed from places that nobody else could reach. We also are shown the different locations and environmental problems mankind created there because of our wish to exploit our planet for our own benefit.
- DirectorStephen LowStarsBill LishmanA man forges iron statuettes of wild animals that mankind is about to make extinct. The animals are shown as well as their iron images until the two plots meet in the end.
- A trip to the misty jungles of South America to study the colorful animals, birds, plants and insects of the tropical rain-forest.
- DirectorGeorge CaseyStarsRobert FoxworthNorman BanksLawrence BlairThis spectacular presentation explores the volcano belt known as the Ring of Fire. Breathtaking cinematography displays close up shots of past and present Pacific Rim volcanoes from Chile, the USA, Japan, and the Philippines.
- DirectorJohn WeileyStarsAlex ScottThis large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film explores life in Antarctica, both for the animals that live there and the scientists that work there.
- DirectorNoel ArchambaultDavid DouglasRoman KroitorStarsMick JaggerKeith RichardsCharlie WattsA filming of the 1990 Rolling Stones "Steel Wheels" concert that traveled Europe. This was filmed in the IMAX process, which allows the film to be projected in a size ten times the size of a regular 35mm projected image.
- DirectorKieth Merrill
- DirectorDavid DouglasStarsRip TornMan's emergency creativity can be seen at its best, after Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait oil wells lit up, as teams from all over the world fought those fires for months, and had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution.
- DirectorTony IanzeloColin LowA sweeping, moving tribute to Canada's stunning geography and rich cultural heritage, Momentum leaps off your screen; and touches your heart.
- DirectorAdrian WarrenStarsRebecca JenkinsMountain Gorilla takes the viewer to a remote range of volcanic mountains in Rwanda, Africa, described by those who have been there as ""one of the most beautiful places in the world"", and home to the few hundred remaining mountain gorillas.
- DirectorBob RogersFollows the lives of several astronaut candidates from initial selection through actual spaceflight.
- DirectorBen SheddStarsGeoffrey HolderA spectacular and unforgettable journey into the heart of the remote and far-flung rainforests of Australia, Costa Rica, French Guiana and Malaysia, this globally important adventure explores these disappearing jungle habitats and gives us a rare, intimate look at the lush foliage and incredibly diverse array of inhabitants.
- DirectorRobert HillmannDiscovered by the Polynesians centuries ago, Hawaii has seen dramatic changes since its exploration by the Europeans. This documentary shows how the islands were formed and are still being formed to this day, plus their abundant wildlife.
- DirectorGreg MacGillivrayJon BoorstinStephen JudsonStarsRobert EatherLouis HermanEllen StofanFrom the earliest voyages that mapped the Earth to today's launches into space, "The Discoverers" reverberates with the passion to explore our universe. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Discoverers" examines our desire to expand the boundaries of knowledge. The stories presented in this film span space and time, taking us around the world to participate in the act of discovery. Stand alongside Sir Isaac Newton in his British lab; then travel to the present to observe Dr. Louis Herman working with his very cerebral dolphins in Hawaii. Ever wonder "how did they do that?"
- DirectorDouglas TrumbullArish FyzeeStarsMichael CorbettS.A. GriffinMarjorie HarrisIn Search of the Obelisk is the first part of the three part interactive 'show' "Secrets of the Luxor Pyramid" that played at the Luxor Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. In Search of the Obelisk is a short film in which a team of intrepid archaeologists discover an ancient pyramid in the Nevada Desert and discover massive caverns filled with advanced alien technology, which then morphs into an interactive film experience, where the characters talk to the audience in real time as the first motion control 'ride' begins.
- DirectorAdrian WarrenStarsPatrick StewartGo on a breathtaking adventure through time and across five continents to reveal nature's most vital secret.