Amazing Journeys takes audiences on six extraordinary journeys of survival
and migration. Depicting migration as an endless search for the best conditions
in which to thrive and successfully adapt, the film explores the wonders and
mysteries surrounding some of earth's most spectacular wildlife and native people.
Originally presented on the breathtakingly huge IMAX screen, this nature documentary
has been digitally remastered to preserve the beauty and clarity
of the original film. The gorgeous cinematography in Amazing Journeys delivers
genuine goose-bump moments.
The film crew captured dramatic footage by actually flying next to the migrating
birds and swimming among huge gray whales. Directed by veteran film director
and four time Academy Award nominee George Casey, the film took one and a half
years to shoot in the various locations.
Witness the mysterious migration of more than 120 million red crabs on tiny
Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. In order to to mate and spawn, millions
of crabs must scuttle through the island's only town to reach its shores. Female
crabs are unable to swim, yet march bravely to the shore's edge to release their
eggs. Watch as so many crabs skitter sideways that the land itself seems
to pulsate and quiver.
Encounter the affectionate curiosity of majestic gray whales in the beautiful
lagoons of Mexico’s Baja California. The whales migrate 5,000 miles from their
Arctic feeding grounds to the warm waters of Mexico, a longer distance than
any other mammal on earth. Amazing Journeys' cameras plunge beneath the ocean's
surface to hover within feet of the whales and film mothers and
calves swimming, nursing, and playing together.
Experience the longest and largest insect migration as monarch butterflies
travel 2,500 miles through North America. Witness up close the birth of a butterfly
and the various stages of the life of a monarch. Enter a golden blizzard as
tens of millions of monarch butterflies fill the sky in the hidden
highlands of Mexico. Feel the hushed, sublime wonder of being surrounded by
a myriad of these air-dancing creatures.
Take flight alongside migratory birds who possess the most varied
display of navigational abilities. Feel the exhilaration from an arm's-length-view
of the race down the runway, then the takeoff and ascent of sleek and powerful
Canadian geese as they begin their journey south. Navigating by sun, stars and
instinct, these birds instinctively know when to begin migrating by sensing
seasonal signals of changing temperatures and day lengths. They possess a genetically
imprinted "flight manual" which allows them to respond to their surroundings
and recognize their destinations.
Watch as hundreds of migrating zebras travel over 500 miles through the
vast plains of East Africa. Experience the life and death dramas as
we follow them through their encounters with ambushing packs of lions and hyenas.
Join the sweeping spectacle as they lead the Great Migration of Africa's greatest
predators through crocodile-filled rivers.
To explore the roots of human migration, in the final journey, audiences encounter
the tall Maasai warriors of East Africa. Through dramatic footage of
the proud Maasai tribespeople tending their cattle, viewers witness the migratory
legacy of humankind and the unending journey that has carried humans out of
Africa to the corners of the earth.
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