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.

Showtimes through January 3, 2010:
Wild Ocean: 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm, and 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 through January 3, 2010:
Beavers: 11:30am, 1:30pm, and 3:30pm

In the stellar nursery within the Orion Nebula, young stars are forming before our eyes from a giant cloud of interstellar gas and dust much as the Sun did almost five billion years ago.

© American Museum of Natural History/NASA

Journey to the Stars  

• 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. every half hour, except Wednesdays
• Wednesday shows begin at 11:00 a.m.
• Visit the Journey to the Stars web site for more information and to view the trailer.

Journey to the Stars, an all-new Hayden Planetarium space show narrated by Academy Award–winning actress Whoopi Goldberg, launches visitors through time and space to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky. Audiences travel 13 billion years into the past, when the first stars were born, and witness brilliant supernova explosions that sent new kinds of matter coursing through the universe, into the atoms of our own bodies and the air we breathe. They visit the heart of our fiery Sun, and glimpse its eventual demise as it transforms into a massive red giant some five billion years in the future. Visitors tour stellar formations, explore new celestial mysteries, and discover the fascinating, unfolding story that connects us all to the stars.