Antarctica
Chill out with a trip to the icy land on the bottom of the planet
Antarctica follows the thirst for exploration to the highest, driest, windiest, coldest continent on Earth. Audiences will marvel as they take a harrowing helicopter ride through icy crevasses and towering pinnacles. Dive with the first humans to swim through a crystalline cavern submerged within a glacier. Drill through centuries-old ice to unlock the secrets of Antarctica's past, and join a company of penguins in a graceful underwater ballet.
True to the IMAX tradition, Antarctica is replete with breathtaking aerial and underwater footage of the earth's most desolate continent. Like most IMAX movies, Antarctica has some of the best production values on film today. The story begins with a flock of penguins above - and below - water, and moves to gargantuan underwater ice sheets and then to a look at Antarctic climatic changes. Explorer Robert Scott makes an important contribution with his appealing, well-articulated narrative. The film cost $3.5 million to produce and the film crew had to drag 2300 pounds of equipment in the frigid temperatures. It took two Antarctic summers to film and the crew stayed at the American, French, Russian and Chinese scientific camps.