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Amazing Journeys
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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