Teacher’s Choice: IMAX Documentaries
Teacher’s Choice is not available from July–October.
Below is a list of IMAX documentaries to select for your upcoming field trip. Confirm your choice with the Registration Team as part of your reservation process. Teacher’s Choice is not available on Saturdays, Sundays, or school break weeks. If your school is the first to request the 10:30 or 11:45 a.m. time slot for that day, you can reserve a film of your choosing from our library.
After your film and time are confirmed, the showing may be opened to other school groups based on expected attendance and available seating. These showings are reserved for school groups only and will not be offered to the general public.
All documentaries are rated G.
Registration Team Contact Info:
(206) 443-2925
edprograms@pacsci.org
Blue Whales
Run Time: 40 minutes
Release Year: 2023
Synopsis: Blue Whales: Return of the Giants takes viewers on a journey of a lifetime to explore the world of the magnificent blue whale, a species rebounding from the brink of extinction. Following two scientific expeditions—one to find a missing population of blues off the exotic Seychelles Islands, the other to chronicle whale families in Mexico’s stunning Gulf of California—the film is an inspirational story that transforms our understanding of the largest animal ever to have lived.
Deep Sky
Run Time: 45 minutes
Release Year: 2023
Synopsis: Deep Sky brings the awe-inspiring images captured by NASA’s Webb Telescope to IMAX—a journey to the beginning of time and space, to never-before-seen cosmic landscapes, recently discovered exoplanets, and planets around other stars.
Follow the global mission to build and launch JWST into orbit in an attempt to answer questions that have haunted us since the beginning of time: Where did we come from? How did the universe begin? Are we alone?
T. rex
Run Time: 45 minutes
Release Year: 2024
Synopsis: For over a 100 years, dinosaurs have inspired and thrilled audiences, commanding blockbuster status in museums and at the box office. But among them towers a king — a tyrant lizard king. With leaps in CGI wizardry and revolutions in tyrannosaur paleontology over the past 25 years, the time has come to revisit rex in the world’s prestigious museum cinemas.
Wild Rescue
Run Time: 42 minutes
Release Year: 2025
Synopsis: Experience the inspiring journey of animals given a second chance at a wild life in this giant screen adventure. Based on the work at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, this uplifting film follows the dedicated teams who rescue, rehabilitate, and release injured and orphaned wild animals.
Film selection may change during the school year.