Free with your visit
These movies provide an added bonus to your visit. They're visually stimulating, entertaining, have multiple curriculum links and give visitors another educational experience. Hi-def format movies have five times the resolution of standard video and are the highest quality motion picture format available. Their technological virtues — wide screen picture, crystal clarity, and vibrant colour — make you feel like you're swimming through the ocean and flying through space in these vivid, attention-grabbing movies.
The following films will be featured in rotation. Call ahead for showtimes.
The Human Body
15 minutes
The Human Body reveals the incredible story of life. The film presents a look at the biological processes that go on without our control and often without our notice. It is a tale of what takes place beneath the skin as we follow a family from dawn to dusk as they go about their daily routine. The Human Body incorporates groundbreaking computer graphics with stunning real-life images to create a day in the life of a human body.
Cosmic Vistas
30 minutes
Experience a breathtaking new perspective of our solar system in glorious HD. Sophisticated cameras speeding through outer space have become our windows to a bold new adventure, shaping our understanding of who we are, where we came from and where we're going.
BBC Life: Extraordinary animals. Extreme behaviour.
50 minutes
Please note that some of these films may contain predation and scenes of mating. The BBC Life series is available in an edited format for younger or more sensitive viewers by special request.
Challenges of Life: Introducing the extraordinary things animals and plants must do to survive and reproduce.
Fish: From the open ocean to coral reef, swim with sharks, mudskippers and convict fish.
Mammals: Fly with one of the largest migrations on Earth; sprint with tiny sengis and see the biggest fight on Earth.
Creatures of the Deep: Using underwater tracking time-lapse techniques, go to unchartered corners of the ocean.