While visiting the GEO CENTRE, be sure to check out the Steele Earth & Space Theatre. Our theatre uses the latest in Dolby 3D technology, and showcases high definition 2D and 3D movies for your enjoyment. Tickets can be purchased from the Admissions Counter in the GEO CENTRE main lobby.

The GEO CENTRE does not have any 3D films playing for the month of January (2012). Instead, we will be showing the BBC series, Power of the Planet (film descriptions and schedule below). Stay tuned for our new 3D offerings coming in February!

GEO CENTRE Movie Schedule at a Glance: 

Film Descriptions:

Volcano

Volcanoes are usually seen as destructive, frightening, but they are absolutely critical to making the Earth a home for life. They are part of something much bigger – a source of unimaginable heat located at the centre of the planet. No force has played a more important role in creating the planet we know today than the Earth’s inner heat. 

Highlights of the film include abseiling down into Ethiopia’s Erta Ale lava lake, diving into Iceland in the split between the European and American plates, slo-mo footage of geysers showing the plumbing that connects Earth’s inner heat with the surface and swooping aerials of New Zealand’s Southern Alps to show how mountains form.

Ice

After explaining how snow, crystallized frozen water turns into ice, we examine its major role in shaping the Earth’s surface. Glaciers exert enormous forces, capable of extreme erosion, and often faster than it appears. The polar caps are entirely ice-covered, even permanently hiding Antarctica’s island archipelago and world top 10-lake. Climate change is largely about ice advance or retreat, which also vastly contributes to currents modification.

Oceans

The oceans cover ¾ of Earth’s surface and make it viable. Their brute eroding tidal (lunar/solar gravity-powered) surf-force helps physically shape the planet, especially the coast, and powers currents, which are vital for climate change in interaction with winds. The oceans own shape is determined by the tectonic drift of the continents. Then micro organisms’ phytoplanktons are critical in starting the food cycle of life through photosynthesis and generation of oxygen. Geological evidence shows how terrible the consequences of major ocean disturbances can be, which bodes badly for our future given the greenhouse effect.

Rare Earth

In the final film we bring together the themes of the series and reach some startling conclusions. The Earth is an exceptionally unusual planet which has only been able to nurture and sustain complex life thanks to an extraordinary number of lucky breaks and coincidences.