Wortham Giant Screen Theatre
5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX 77030
Movieline: 1-(713)-639-4629
Website: https://www.hmns.org/

Africa: The Serengeti (NR)
Cast: James Earl Jones
Runtime: 39 mins.
In a land where archaeologists have traced human life back two million years and where the indigenous Masai people tend cattle and maintain their unique customs we are taken on an incredible journey into the wild Serengeti plains. Witness here a scene rarely seen by humans - The Great Migration. Follow more than two million wildebeests, zebras and antelope as they travel over 500 miles across the Serengeti. Filmed on location in Kenya and Tanzania, Africa: The Serengeti brings you spectacular vistas and dynamic aerials and features Africa's greatest predators - lions, crocodiles and cheetahs - in deadly pursuit of their migrating prey.

Butterfly Journey ()
Cast: Daisy Ridley
Beautiful, delicate yet unbelievably resilient, the butterfly is one of nature’s most enigmatic creatures. A story of adaptation and survival, we follow the vast migrations of the Blue Tigers of Australia and the Monarchs of North America and Mexico. With the help of cutting edge slow-motion, drone and macro filming techniques, we see the butterflies’ tiny world in immaculate detail as they overcome the challenges of metamorphosis and migration, fly thousands of kilometers and as high as 3300 meters. Butterfly Journey reveals our interconnected and awe-inspiring world on the giant screen, through the eyes of the butterflies. Yet what fate awaits them when the fine-tuned climates they intimately know suddenly shift?

Call of the Dolphins (NR)
Cast: Mary Steenburgen
Runtime: 40 mins.
Dolphins have long captured the imagination of humans with their intelligence, complex social lives, and playful antics. But what else draws us to these captivating animals? Narrated by Academy-Award® winner Mary Steenburgen, Call of the Dolphins invites audiences on an unforgettable journey into the fascinating world of wild dolphins, revealing the profound connection we share with these highly intelligent animals. Meet the dedicated researchers uncovering the mysteries of dolphin behavior and follow a team from the IFAW Dolphin Rescue Center as they help give stranded dolphins a second chance. Their stories reveal the deep bonds between humans and dolphins forged over centuries and will inspire a new sense of wonder and appreciation for these amazing ocean dwellers!

Cities of the Future ()
Cast: John Krasinski
Runtime: 45 mins.
Imagine stepping 50 years into the future and finding smart cities designed to be totally sustainable. Renewable energy is our primary power source, space-based solar power provides solar energy 24 hours a day, everything is recycled, and you have your own individualized pods that run on maglev trains using little or no energy. You can also ride an electric flying vehicle! Traffic jams are a thing of the past. This isn't science fiction. Engineers are making plans for a sustainable world right now. And it's coming to the giant screen! Cities of the Future is an exciting giant screen experience from MacGillivray Freeman Films and the American Society of Civil Engineers, the award-winning team that brought you Dream Big: Engineering Our World.

T.Rex ()
Cast: Sam Neill
Runtime: 45 mins.
From the team behind the NSF-supported prehistoric hits Dinosaurs Alive, Titans of the Ice Age, and Dinosaurs of Antarctica comes the planet’s most famous dinosaur — the hit-maker, the headliner, the apex attraction — TYRANNOSAURUS REX.For over a hundred years dinosaurs have inspired and thrilled audiences, commanding blockbuster status in museums and at the box office. But among them towers a king — a tyrant lizard king. With leaps in CGI wizardry and revolutions in tyrannosaur paleontology over the past twenty five years, the time has come to revisit rex in the world’s prestigious museum cinemas. Working with top tyrannosaur scientists, a coalition of natural history institutions, and pioneering paleo and visual effects artists, GSF’s original giant screen production on this iconic dinosaur — and its carnivorous Cretaceous cousins — aims to be the most dazzling and accurate T. rex documentary ever made.With hat tips to famous specimens, landmark discoveries, and wild cinematic depictions over the last century, the film will explore the interplay between speculation and evidence, and reveal how the process of science refreshes and reimagines our understanding of this legendary dinosaur.