For its 25th giant screen film, MacGillivray Freeman Films invites movie-going audiences to experience the mysterious world of the underground: the amazing world of caves. Premiering in select IMAX and other large-format theatres, Journey Into Amazing Caves is a visceral, suspenseful expedition with a new breed of scientists who boldly explore places once thought off-limits to human presence, let alone IMAX cameras. For Journey Into Amazing Caves, these scientists have joined up with a team of intrepid filmmakers to bring back unprecedented footage from unique and forbidding ice caves, underwater caves, and terrestrial caves. Now, for the first time, audiences can squeeze into Earth’s alien, hidden realms guided by two women cavers on the quest of a lifetime: daring to enter caves so remote and so threatening, exploring them is like exploring a new planet.
During Journey Into Amazing Caves, audiences will wriggle through tiny, twisting passages, drop into gleaming blue labyrinths of ice, swim through flooded underground vaults, and enter a world so extreme the microscopic creatures who live there are called extremophiles. They will circle the globe, stopping in the hot, lush Yucatán; dropping into barren, frozen Greenland and flying above the primitive red rock Arizona desert. And they will hold their breath as their expedition leaders, Dr. Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach, rappel down steep cliffs into unmapped chambers, hoping to bring back startling new discoveries that may unlock new cures for human disease.