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- An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard.
- A young girl befriends a wild black stallion.
- This heartwarming film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them-saving endangered species one life at a time.
- Allied forces invade Normandy on June 6, 1944.
- From outer space countries don't exist.
- Man's emergency creativity can be seen at its best, after Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait oil wells lit up, as teams from all over the world fought those fires for months, and had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution.
- While our host hunts for destructive computer bugs, various shorts and clips of computer animation are featured.
- Follows the narrative of the book "The Lady and the Panda, An Adventure" by Ruth Harkness, published in New York, in 1938, as the author learns the true nature of a shy, fit and docile animal by observing the rare and unstudied panda bear.
- On several Shuttle missions, Earth has been portrayed from places that nobody else could reach. We also are shown the different locations and environmental problems mankind created there because of our wish to exploit our planet for our own benefit.
- Traveling on the Space Shuttle, covers training, launch, flight, deployment of LDEF from Challenger in April 1984 (STS-41C).
- Join a team of explorers on the expedition of a lifetime as they set off to become the first to navigate the Blue Nile from source to sea. The epic 3,260 mile descent down the world's greatest and deadliest river has eluded humankind for centuries - until now! Ride shotgun on the team's 16-foot rafts as they crash through the rapids in Ethiopia's desert canyons. Battle through some of the world's most extreme whitewater rapids with renowned kayaker, Gordon Brown. Over the arduous, four month journey, the team faces nearly in-surmountable challenges - from crocodile attacks to armed bandits and arrests. Through breathtaking cinematography, Mystery of the Nile reveals a wondrous region and abundant treasures, from Tissisat Falls and the wonders of Egypt to the forgotten black pyramids of Meroe and 12th century churches that were carved into sheer rock.
- Follow the scientific expedition of John Wesley Powell who mapped the canyon and boated the Colorado River rapids into modern times.
- The Serengeti is a huge area of grassland in Tanzania, Africa. Once a year, in the time of drought, about two million herd animals like antelopes travel north to feed and mate before moving south again, when plants there begin to blossom.
- Adrenaline Rush: the Science of Risk takes a look at the world of skydiving and base jumping - parachuting from a building, a bridge or a cliff. While providing breathtaking views of skydiving over the Florida Keys, the Mojave Desert and in the magnificent Fjords of Norway, this giant-screen experience explores the psychological and physiological forces behind risk-taking, and the physics involved in these activities. In doing so, it also shows us how risk-taking is part of everyday life. The storyline focuses on two risk-takers, Adrian Nicholas and Katarina Ollikainen. Nicholas, a veteran skydiver who has performed thousands of jumps, is the record holder for the longest unassisted human flight, a 4-minute 55-second flight at speeds of up to 200 kilometers/hour that took place in 1999. Adrenaline Rush even allows spectators to directly experience a base jump thanks to a camera strapped to one of the professional jumpers who took part in the film. You can live through a 1300-meter (4150 feet) jump from a legendary cliff in Norway, the Katthammaren Wall.
- This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film explores life in Antarctica, both for the animals that live there and the scientists that work there.
- THE ULTIMATE WAVE TAHITI plunges you into the stunning beauty of an island paradise on a quest to find the perfect wave-riding experience.
- All in subjective sequence shot, a fantastic stroll through the maze of an old disused gold mine shot with the Showscan 70mm process.
- Several beaver families in their wild surroundings. The interesting process of building a dam can be watched as well as the dangers arising from hungry bears and other influences on the new-built home.
- Deep within the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala, and extending into the Yucatán Peninsula lie the fabled pyramids,temples and palaces of the Maya. This short film explores what happened to the ancient people and places
- A superhero fan girl working in a museum discovers an old superhero suit, but in doing so, releases an ancient evil being who is trying to take over the world, and she must put the suit's powers to the test, and see if she can be a real hero.
- One inch from the ground at eighty miles per hour, speed down a twisted mountain road on a luge board for this all-out race to the finish line.
- From the earliest voyages that mapped the Earth to today's launches into space, "The Discoverers" reverberates with the passion to explore our universe. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Discoverers" examines our desire to expand the boundaries of knowledge. The stories presented in this film span space and time, taking us around the world to participate in the act of discovery. Stand alongside Sir Isaac Newton in his British lab; then travel to the present to observe Dr. Louis Herman working with his very cerebral dolphins in Hawaii. Ever wonder "how did they do that?"
- Battle in an outer space demolition derby against alien space vehicles in an adventure from Lucas Arts' Industrial Light and Magic, creators of the effects for Star Wars. Filmed and screened in the Showscan 70mm process.
- We are off chasing down a tornado and trying to stop it from destroying the Futuroscope Park. We follow Alex and Melanie, using Alex's vehicle to approach close to the tornado. Eventually we get sucked up in the storm before Alex stops it.
- What happens in a human body during high stress activities like extreme sports?
- Imax 70mm is cleverly used in the P. Etaix featurette to show the semaphore system, based on connecting towers, presented by a Frenchman, Claude Chappe, in 1792, a start for practical telecommunications in the new industrial age of Europe.
- Get ready for a celestial adventure thanks to this film taking you to the discovery of numerous satellites.
- The adventures of a man who wakes up on a train, late to his own wedding. He meets a magic tree who allows him to both fly and drive a racing car - with theater seats as motion simulator - before reaching his final destination, the church.
- Go on a breathtaking adventure through time and across five continents to reveal nature's most vital secret.
- Bounce through a giant pinball machine in this totally computer generated, award winning, intergalactic thriller. This ride takes place in a giant pinball type of environment somewhere in outer space, with nine sportive vehicles competing.
- Aliens arrive on Earth and explore an amusement park thinking it it is a modern city.
- At the Futuroscope 360° Cinema Pavilion, thanks to glasses called Hallucinoscope, invented by the French magician Gérard Majax, the audience is immersed in a dizzying fresco created by the comic book author Moebius (a.k.a. Jean Giraud).
- A documentary on the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
- Featuring state-of-the-art 3D animation, Adventures in Animation introduces the "stars" of tomorrow, by taking viewers on a journey through the world of computer-generated virtual actors. Colorful virtual hosts Phil and Maria demonstrate the creation of virtual actor Slim: how he is designed, sculpted, painted and directed to move.
- Ocean Oasis is a fascinating journey into the bountiful seas and pristine deserts of two remarkably different, but inextricably linked worlds - Mexico's Sea of Cortés and the Baja California desert.
- A Showscan ride film. Shoot the rapids through dangerous waters in a rubber raft.
- As you fly a ladybug on a 4D adventure into the world of Arthur and the Minimoys, nature will unveil itself and its beauty will never seem the same again.
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, takes you on a trip into her magic-filled house of Superstition. Superstition Still - nWave Film.
- Kiwi Magic/The Holiday Journey of Mr. Barnes is a fun filled, action packed, madcap adventure in New Zealand's countryside. Set among some of the archipelago's most striking scenery, this comedic romp will show you New Zealand at its best.
- IMAX Solido 3D film shows how photosynthesis converts sunlight into stored energy in plants, which subsequently provide energy to animals and man.
- Travel up close astronauts as they repair the Hubble Space Telescope and soar above Venus and Mars whilst finding proof of new planets and the possibility of other life forming around distant stars.
- Explore the wonders of the universe in this spacetrip. Join Michael Dorn and Terry O'Quinn as they take you on a journey through space, uncovering the mysteries of the cosmos and the groundbreaking discoveries made by the Hubble telescope.
- Introduces the underwater chariot race that is held once every 1,000 years to determine who becomes the next ruler of the sunken city of Atlantis.
- A 35 minute edit of Fly Me to the Moon 3D (2007) which is broadcast at Futuroscope and other amusement parks: only features the actual sequence of the trip to the moon.
- This IMAX "Magic Carpet" film follows the life-cycle of millions of Monarch butterflies as they migrate from Canada south to the mountain valleys of Mexico.
- The touching and comical story of a young boy's relationship with a robot.
- A young girl joins a space creature named Zargon and together they soar over British Columbia's endless majestic beauty.