Wild Ocean

  

Wild Ocean, a captivating IMAX film, features original music by award-winning directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, and captures one of the world's greatest migrations. Produced by the creators of the international sensation STOMP and directors of the award-winning Giant Screen film Pulse: a STOMP Odyssey, this 40-minute film explores the annual feeding frenzy that takes place in the oceans off of South Africa as billions of sardines migrate up the KwaZulu-Natal Wild Coast, followed by whales, sharks, dolphins, and gannets.

Wild Ocean delves into this underwater struggle for survival and examines the effects of global warming and overfishing on this great migration and the local people. If this route is changed, or if the number of sardines decreases, the entire ecosystem could change, harming humans and every species tied to these tiny fish. In South Africa, business, government, and the locals have joined forces in an attempt to protect this great and invaluable migration.

Visitors interested in learning more about the oceans and sustainability can visit the Museum's Milstein Hall of Ocean Life and the temporary exhibition Climate Change. The 29,000-square-foot Milstein Hall of Ocean Life is a fully immersive marine environment with high-definition video projections, interactive computer stations, and 22 ocean habitat displays. Climate Change explains the science of climate change to visitors of all ages and explores the implications of unchecked climate change for future generations.

Showtimes through January 3, 2010

Wild Ocean - 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm, 4:30pm

Beavers

  

Beavers follows a pair of these industrious creatures as they leave the shelter of their colony in search of a site to build a new home. The film chronicles their daily activities and the dangers they face as they find a site, build a dam, and start their own family.

When it was released in 1988, the giant screen production Beavers brought audiences closer than ever to the shy, mysterious creatures that have been steadfastly reshaping the landscapes of the planet for eons. Still in exhibition more than twenty years later, Beavers has become a cinema classic and world-wide family favorite. In 1989 it was awarded the Jury Prize and was co-winner of the Public Prize at the Second International Giant Screen Festival at La Geode, Paris; and in 2004, the film was inducted into the Maximum Image Hall of Fame by IMAX® theaters from around the world.

Showtimes: July 4, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Beavers - 11:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm