
The Fleet Science Center will be closed on Monday, December 25.
Experience three full days of cinematic wonders at the Fleet with the IMAX Documentary Film Festival in our newly renovated Heikoff Giant Dome Theater.
Each documentary film will take you to wondrous places with breathtaking cinematography that can be experienced only on a Giant Dome screen.
The festival is a rare opportunity to see special films in the world's first IMAX Dome Theater—all in one day! Enjoy past favorites or discover amazing films never before been shown in the Heikoff Giant Dome Theater.
Join us from Friday, November 10, to Sunday, November 12, to see a different documentary film screening every hour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. See below for a complete schedule and short synopses.
Admission to one documentary film is included with your regular Fleet Experience ticket and member visit. You may purchase additional shows at the ticket counter.
Pricing
General Public
Members
Film Festival Schedule
*Schedule is subject to changes. Films are available on a first-come-first-served basis.
Meet the fabled Spirit Bear, hidden from the outside world in one of the planet’s most secluded wildernesses, the Great Bear Rainforest.
Discover from a new perspective how the Allied landing at Normandy changed the world.
Experience volcanoes up close and personal and follow the story of volcanoes from the Earth's beginnings to today.
Search for the hidden wonders of nature on a visually stunning cross-country adventure.
See the universe as we have never seen it before, with stunningly immersive pictures beamed back to earth by NASA’s new telescope JWST.
Discover from a new perspective how the Allied landing at Normandy changed the world.
Dive deep below the ocean surface to swim with some of the most exotic creatures on the planet.
Experience what it's like to be aboard The International Space Station, a technical marvel, unparalleled in scope and challenge.
Discover from a new perspective how the Allied landing at Normandy changed the world.
Follow the lives of orphaned orangutans and elephants, from birth to their rebirth into the wild.
Ascend the world's tallest mountain with a team of four international climbers who find hope, beauty and triumph in the wake of tragedy.
Discover from a new perspective how the Allied landing at Normandy changed the world.
See the universe as we have never seen it before, with stunningly immersive pictures beamed back to earth by NASA’s new telescope JWST.
Travel with an Australian green sea turtle across the ocean and back.
Journey through distant galaxies and explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings.
Explore human engineering marvels, big and small.
Journey to the remote and wondrous world of Madagascar.
Immerse yourself in stunning footage of our blue planet—and the effects humanity has had on it over time—captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Discover from a new perspective how the Allied landing at Normandy changed the world.
Join the monarchs' perilous and extraordinary journey while following an intrepid scientist’s 40-year search to find the monarchs’ secret hideaway.
See the universe as we have never seen it before, with stunningly immersive pictures beamed back to earth by NASA’s new telescope JWST.
Travel to some of the most exotic and isolated locations on Earth for face-to-face encounters with mysterious and stunning creatures from the deep.
Discover from a new perspective how the Allied landing at Normandy changed the world.
Discover the wild places that belong to us all.