BROWSE SHOWS 
About 17 November 2017
Welcome, Houston Museum of Natural Science!
Six Popular Shows Added
Through the distribution services of ePlanetarium, we've got more shows available to rent/stream!
Earth's Wild Ride is like many tales shared by grandparents over the centuries, except "the old country" is really another planet, always visible from the moon base, but totally unlike the granddaughter's world. While learning about eclipses, the ice age, Earth's water cycle and differences between the Earth and Moon, the audience is taken on a roller-coaster-like ride through canyons of raging rivers and hot flowing lava.
Extreme weather takes center stage in Force Five. Experience the devastating effects of hurricanes, tornadoes, and space storms, and learn how to predict and survive these monsters.
With muscles and bones made on Earth, you'll be a super star on the solar system's low-gravity worlds. In The Great Planet Adventures, explore our vision of space colonies on planets, moons, and asteroids — the resources available and how to have fun! Available in a General Public version and The Great Planet Adventures - Kids edit.
Impact! takes you out into space with astronaut Tom Jones to learn about meteors, meteorites, asteroids, and comets, and the dangers they can pose to life on Earth.
We Choose Space features astronauts Scott Parazinsky, Tom Jones, Gene Cernan, and veteran space reporter Walter Cronkite as your tour guides on this adventure to the International Space Station and to the past and future moon.
Though we're just starting out with these, HMNS has created a dozen more shows. So perhaps if these meet with success, we'll have even more titles to offer you in the future. Let us know what you'd like to see!
5 November 2017
16 October 2017
New show from Creative Planet!
EXPLORE
Our future on Mars depends on discoveries from the past!
Have you ever wondered how our modern spacecraft can navigate quickly and accurate to Earth orbit and beyond? Learn how it all works in EXPLORE, a compelling new immersive experience.
Revolving around the story of a future Mars colonization, through the discoveries of Johannes Kepler's laws of motion, this fulldome show is narrated by British voiceover Philip Banks. It features script contributions by Loch Ness Productions's own Carolyn Collins Petersen and British planetarian Dr. Jenny Shipway. It's a beautifully visualized educational trip through the history of astronomy and the space age. We're pleased to make this show available as part of our ever-growing library of fulldome content on demand!
For instant gratification, you can rent EXPLORE now!
2 October 2017
At the producer's request, the shows The Little Star That Could and Legends of the Night Sky: Perseus and Andromeda are no longer available to rent.
24 August 2017
New show added!
Saturn’s rings are one of the most beautiful sights in the solar system. In 2004, the Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn and sent back volumes of data. Learn the history of the discovery of Saturn’s rings and explore the mysterious features seen by the Cassini space craft.
From Charles W. Brown Planetarium, Ball State University.
24 August 2017
23 July 2017
Seasonal STARGAZING Mini shows now available!
By customer request, we've made a package of the 4 mini-length Seasonal STARGAZING shows.
The original full ~14-minute shows spend half their time under city skies with a modicum of light pollution, before taking a trip to the country to see pristine skies. The ~7-minute mini versions forgo the rural skies.
Sometimes you need short shows!
16 July 2017
25 April 2017
3 April 2017
Welcome, California Academy of Sciences!
Five Outstanding Shows Added
At last, we're able to make the fine shows from the Morrison Planetarium available to rent/stream!
Incoming!, the 2016 original planetarium show narrated by George Takei, explores the past, present, and future of our Solar System and the landmark discoveries scientists have made sending spacecraft to visit tiny worlds. Cutting-edge visualizations bring real-time data from current NASA missions to life while taking audiences on a ride through the dynamic story of our cosmic origins. Along the way, audiences discover what these impacts from above can teach us — and how scientific advances may allow us to find and track cosmic threats before they reach planet Earth.
Travel through space and time in a fulldome production that makes you look at Earth in a whole new way. A sweeping geological journey, Earthquake explores the forces that transform the surface of our planet. Fly along the San Andreas Fault before diving into the planet's interior. Journey back in time to witness the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the break-up of Pangaea 200 million years ago. Visit the sites of historical earthquakes from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Learn how scientists and engineers collaborate to help society prepare for a safer environment — and a safer future.
Travel 120 million light-years to rediscover home! Fragile Planet combines scientific visualization with movie-making magic, highlighting Earth's special place in the universe as the only known haven for life. Develop a renewed appreciation for our fragile planet through the lens of astronomy, as Sigourney Weaver guides audiences on an immersive excursion that explores a universe filled with the possibility of life.
Living networks connect and support life forms large and small — from colonies of tiny microbes and populations of massive whales to ever-expanding human societies. In Habitat Earth, discover what it means to live in today's connected world. Through stunning visualizations of the natural world, dive below the ocean's surface to explore the dynamic relationships found in kelp forest ecosystems, travel beneath the forest floor to see how Earth's tallest trees rely on tiny fungi to survive, and journey to new heights to witness the intricate intersection between human and ecological networks. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Frances McDormand, this 2015 show features stunning visualizations of both biological and human-built networks (and of how they intersect), taking show-goers on an incredible, immersive journey through the interconnectedness of life on Earth.
Life: A Cosmic Story is a high-speed ride through the history of life! Narrated by Jodie Foster, it tells the 14-billion-year saga of how we came to be. It's a journey from the microscopic view inside a plant cell to the vastness of our universe populated by billions of galaxies swirling in space.
27 March 2017
New show from Adler Planetarium!
Join the Hunt for a Possible Planet!
Planet Nine, the latest fulldome show from Adler Planetarium, gives audiences an inside look at the painstaking process of planet-searching, as told by CalTech's Mike Brown, discoverer of Eris and Haumea. Throughout this fascinating show, Brown talks about unusual orbits and describes nights of painstaking robotic searches for new planets. His is a story of modern planet-detecting techniques that have uncovered many new worlds out beyond Neptune.
Discoveries of new worlds "out there" also give insight into their distances, orbits, and compositions. In addition, those orbits give intriguing clues to the existence of what may be a very large, so-far-undiscovered world deep in the Kuiper Belt.
Join in this fascinating tale of observation, discovery, and analysis — and hear firsthand about the life of a modern planet hunter searching out his prey.
21 March 2017
We added country flags to our Shows - A to Z page, so you can scan quickly down the page, to see at a glance if soundtracks in other languages exist!
2016
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