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The IMAX® 2-D Theater The Maritime Aquarium features an 2-D IMAX® Theater with a six story high screen. Huge, crisp images make you feel like you’re inside the action; and the 10,000-watt digital propietary surround-sound audio system completes a total immersion movie experience.
Sorry, we do not offer 3-D movies at this time. Movies are still magnificent in our large format, high quality, film presentation.
The primary purpose of our theater is to show documentary and educational movies. We show Hollywood movies as an added bonus for our visitors. By enjoying these movies you help support our mission to protect Long Island Sound. The Maritime Aquarium is a non-profit institution. Thank you.
Which IMAX® movie adventure would you like to see today?
Movie run time averages 40 minutes. (Note: Movies, times & prices are subject to change without notice.)
Born to be Wild(2-D only)
May 27 - June 30 / 1 & 3 p.m. / daily
See our "Born to be Wild" dedicated page for webisodes, education guides and more: click here! (The Maritime Aquarium is showing this movie in 2D) An inspiring story of love, dedication and the remarkable bond between humans and animals, “Born to Be Wild” follows orphaned orangutans and elephants, and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them – saving endangered species one life at a time.
This heartwarming adventure will transport audiences into the lush rain forests of Borneo with world-renowned primatologist Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, and across the rugged Kenyan savannah with celebrated elephant authority Dame Daphne Sheldrick, as they and their teams rescue, rehabilitate and return these incredible animals back to the wild.
Narrated by Academy-Award® winner Morgan Freeman, this IMAX/Warner Bros. film will open at The Maritime Aquarium (and nationally) on Fri., April 8.
Cheer on Orphaned Orangutans & Elephants in New IMAX Movie Born to be Wild at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
With a film about baby elephants and orangutans, the cuteness factor will barely fit inside Connecticut’s largest IMAX theater, with a screen that’s six stories high.
Dr. Galdikas has been studying orangutans since 1971, when, as a graduate student, she met famed Kenyan paleontologist Louis Leakey and – along with Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey – became one of “Leakey’s Angels,” doing groundbreaking field studies of primates.
Follow marine biologists, including Connecticut native Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski, as they research the intelligence and communications of everyone’s favorite marine mammals in this Academy Award-nominated film.
“Dolphins” goes beyond the romanticized images of marine-park dolphin shows to reveal how scientists are slowly gaining an understanding into these creatures’ complex world. Dive with Dudzinski as she studies dolphin communication, join Dr. Bernd Wursig for his research into dolphin behavior, and witness the stirring bond between naturalist Dean Bernal and a lonely dolphin named JoJo.
Narrated by Pierce Brosnan, with music by Sting.
Your heart will pound with excitement – and the IMAX Theater will pound under the thunderous footsteps of a Tyrannosaurus rex – in this fun trip back in time.
“T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous” is a fictional tale of a teen-ager who accidently disturbs a special fossil egg and is magically transported back through time. She meets famous dinosaur experts doing field research and eventually ends up 65 million years in the past, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. See Pteranodons with 20-foot wingspans, duck-billed hadrosaurs and and one miffed T-rex momma, rendered in incredible detail on the giant IMAX® screen.
The film will be a great “add-on” for visitors this summer when the Aquarium presents a special exhibit of robotic dinosaurs. “(“Dinosaur Summer” opens June 18.)
Hollywood IMAX Movies TBA
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Note: Movies, times and prices are subject to change without notice.
To learn more about the IMAX film format, visit www.imax.com.
