A collection of beautiful time-lapse photographs of the natural world. Over 10,000…
Length: 7mins
PLANETS – a Journey through the Solar System
PLANETS – a Journey through the Solar System
Discover the fascinating landscapes of our Solar System.
Glide over the landforms of Mars, soar over the clouds of Jupiter and dive through the rings of Saturn.
Witness the violent beginnings of planet formation – as you try and avoid colliding with an asteroid!
Using real photographs taken by space probes as well as stunning computer generated imagery, the film presents a modern view of the Solar System in the dynamic context of its evolution.
Preview the full film below.
Film Type
Length: 30min
KS3 – KS5 / Families / Adults
Also available in Arabic, Czech, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
Live Astronomer Show: SEN/PMLD (All Ages)
Our award winning live astronomer show, suitable for all special and complex needs. SEN, SLD, PMLD…
Length: 15mins
Arabian Stars
Ramadhan Moon
Our highly acclaimed and popular ‘Islamic Astronomy’ show, presented by one of the UK’s most experienced astronomers.
This lively interactive show, goes back in time to the lands of Arabia where astronomers looked up at the night sky and made links between the heavens and scriptures within the holy book – The Quran
Show overview
- Why was astronomy so important to early Arabian astronomers
- Importance of Sun, in telling the time for prayer (salat)
- Position of stars in directing worshippers to the Ka’bah
- Phases of the moon, to determine the islamic month
- Constellations as a form of inspiration for Islamic art and henna design
- Why so many stars bear arabic names
- Introduction to the works of Abu Ali al-Hasan (Alhazen) (965-1039 AD)
Show details
- Live and interactive shows
- Can be delivered in schools, community centres and mosques with segregation allowance
- All ages
- Approximately 30 mins long
- Show is followed by an recitation clip from the Quran talking about space
Galaxies
A brief introduction to the immense collections of stars called galaxies. Learn how clues about the nature of galaxies (‘milky objects’)…
Length: 14mins
Cycle
A collection of beautiful time-lapse photographs of the natural world. Over 10,000…
Length: 7mins
Circles of Time
An artistic interpretation of the colours of each month spread over four seasons. Relax…
Length: 12mins
2015 Year of Light
Visible or invisible, light is everywhere. Light creates moods and emotions…
Light Echoes
Cosmic art created by dying stars: 12 echoes of light from dramatic explosions in deep space…
Length: 5mins
Losing The Dark
Starry skies are a vanishing treasure because light pollution is erasing our view of the Universe. Such pollution…
Length: 6mins
CREATION – An Ancient Chinese Story
‘The Classic of Mountains and Seas’ or ‘Shan Hai Jing’ is a Chinese classic text and compilation of fabled…
Length: 4mins
Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way
Embark on a journey to the centre of the Milky Way and during seven minutes travel faster than light, from…
Length: 7mins
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014
The Royal Observatory Greenwich proudly presents selected images of the Astronomy Photographer of…
Length: 12mins
Art – Science – Wonder
Lift off the planet in your imagination and head straight for the Pillars of…
Length: 6mins
Tren Italia
Fulldome experience immersing the viewer of train travel…
Length: 4mins
2-IN-1 PERFORMANCE
The best of both worlds: an astronomer-led night sky curriculum linked show followed by a 360˚ film. Available with all performances…
Length: 30-45mins
Waiting Far Away
“An explorer of the Cosmos has travelled too far… and can no longer find home”…
Length: 11mins
Solar Quest
A thrilling 10-min field trip to our nearest star the Sun…
Length: 10mins
Little ABC
A set of three short 7-min immersive films addressing Light, Clouds and Meteorites. Aimed at children 3-7 years old…
Length: 3 x 7mins
Supernovas Company
A cosmic tragicomedy for older children and adults. The script is written in verse, featuring astrophysicist Kurioseo Kuirosei…
Length: 20mins
The Adventures of Victor & Garu
An inspirational endorsement to the joys of travel, touching lightly on social issues. The film attempts to stimulate the urge to discover and…
Length: 25mins
The Scientific Alphabet
7-minute soundbites of scientific information communicated with stunning 360˚ visuals…
Length: 3 x 7mins
Journey To Infinity
Take a breathtaking journey from the UK to the edge of the Solar System and beyond…
Length: 10mins
Live Astronomer Show: KS4 (gcse)
Key Stage 4 GCSE syllabus linked astronomer show, delivered by a teaching…
Length: 90mins
Live Astronomer Show: Early Years / Reception
Simple, ability appropriate presenter-led tour of the night sky, beginning with sunset…
Length: 15mins
Voyager – Interstellar Mission
The mission objective of the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM) is to extend the NASA exploration of the solar system beyond the neighborhood of the…
Length: 5mins
Live Astronomer Show: KS1 (Seasonal changes)
Introduction to the current night sky, touching on the topic Seasonal changes (Year 1) of the 2014 Science…
Length: 25mins
Live Astronomer Show: KS2 (Earth & Space and Light)
Introduction to the current night sky, Topics covered: Day/Night, Seasons, Moon Phases, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Solar System Structure and…
Length: 45mins
Courage
Dancers are uploaded into a computer‘s operating system and race against time to battle a virus and resolve…
Length: 4mins
Inspiration
At the dawn of time, the Universe comes into being and star fields begin to take form. The Hindu deity and…
Length: 6mins
Mars – The Answers Are On Their Way
What happened to Mars? Where did the water go? Was there once life on this red world? Could there still be life somewhere…
Length: 23mins
Sizing Up Space
How big is the distance between the Earth and the Sun – or between the Sun and the other planets?…
Length: 13mins
Clockwork Skies
Explore the motions of the stars, Sun, Moon and planets across the sky. Are they moving, or are we…
Length: 5mins
Space Shapes
What’s the difference between a sphere and a disc? A ball and a pancake? Lift off in a rocket and find out!…
Length: 9mins
R+J
A condensed, modern and surrealistic 360° version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, performed by a group…
Length: 20mins
Written on the Body
The world’s first fulldome dance film, transporting ‘Dance for Screen’ into a new dimension, the 360˚ screen…
Length: 8mins
S.E.T.I – Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The prospect that we may not be alone in the Universe is taken as a fact in films, by writers and a great many scientists…
Length: 25mins
Sunshine
Sunshine is a lovable cartoon Sun – and he doesn’t care if children get loud or excited: in fact…
Length: 14mins
Tempus Ruhr
A beautifully evocative ‘nightshift portrait’ of the Ruhr metropolis of northwest Germany, captured utilising…
Length: 22mins
The Birth of the Solar System
How did our solar system originate? What chain of events led to its creation? Just as detectives look for traces of evidence to solve a…
Length: 22mins
The Body Code
Fly through the carotid artery and explore the eye, brain, ear and heart. Then shrink down to the size of a cell to see its nucleus and DNA…
Length: 21mins
Two Small Pieces of Glass
A film about two students as they interact with a female astronomer at a local star party…
Length: 24mins
We Are Astronomers
Do you know what an astronomer does? Today’s astronomer is not the lone observer of past centuries….
Length: 25mins
Lucy’s Cradle
Based on the diversity of human DNA, all modern humans can be traced to an ancestral population in East Africa. A unique environment for the…
Length: 23mins
Liszt From Space
When the Universe feels unwitnessed, it might just play with some of the tones…
Length: 14mins
Liquid Light Flow
Inside a virtual, transparent dome the audience immersed in multicoloured ‘liquid light’…
Length: 5mins
IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System
Join scientists who are investigating the boundary between our Solar System and the rest of our galaxy in…
Length: 27mins
Gremlins: Waan
A journey into dissolving space. Multicolored patterns expand and contract in a circular “breathing” way pushing the limits of resolution…
Length: 7mins
Gremlins: Ego
A breathtaking and unrivalled fulldome experience by professional artist Michel Gingras…
Length: 7mins
Pop Culture Astronomy (KS2 – KS5)
Live, curriculum-linked show based on the astronomy of Harry Potter, Dr Who, Star Trek, Marvel Comics, etc…
Length: 10-15mins
Cosmic Dance
Breathtaking choreography and 360° visuals will engulf you in an unforgettable cinema experience in this unique film…
Length: 45mins
Coral Rekindling Venus
During the transit of Venus in the 18th century, countries at war paused hostilities and co-operated in allowing scientists safe passage to…
Length: 20 & 45mins
Chronicle of a Journey to Earth
Travel to a unique planet — to call your home! Imagine that you are a traveller from the depths of interstellar…
Length: 20mins
Chaoscapes
Leisure, relaxation, contemplation. From chaos to creative calm, immerse your senses in the beauty of abstract…
Length: 6mins
Cell! Cell! Cell!
You consist of between 70-100 thousand thousand million living cells (70-100 trillion). They work. They talk. They think. They are what makes you…
Length: 25mins
Wake up and Smell the Coffee
Travel with caffeine molecules through cell membranes into the blood stream and the brain, interacting with adenosine…
Length: 24mins
Dark
A 360˚ film that explains and explores the nature of dark matter, the missing 80% of the mass of the…
Length: 20mins
Natural Selection
Journey with Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle to the Galapagos Islands, where he was inspired to develop the theory of…
Length: 29 & 41mins
The Dark Matter Mystery
What holds galaxies together? What are the building blocks of the Universe? Why does the…
Length: 38mins
Supervolcanoes
The eruption of the volcano Toba in Sumatra 74,000 years ago was the largest eruption our planet has experienced in the last 25 million years. Yet…
Length: 24mins
Dynamic Earth
Stunning 360° film exploring the inner workings of global climate, using rich visualisations based on…
Length: 24mins
We Are Aliens
Join scientists in the hunt for real aliens. How do we know which planets could harbour life? What are the requirements for…
Length: 25mins
We Are Stars
An exhilarating journey through time and space in search of our origins. Where did the atoms and molecules that make up our bodies…
Length: 26mins
The Ooky Spooky Light Show
The Ooky Spooky Light Show was developed for planetariums interested in holiday themed light shows for their audiences….
Length: 38mins
The Incredible Sun
Every second the Sun emits a million times more energy than the world consumes in a year. How does the Sun make such vast amounts of…
Length: 11mins
New Horizons for a Little Planet
A light-hearted introduction to the New Horizons mission which flew past Pluto in 2015…
Length: 5mins
The Alien Who Stole Christmas
The Alien Who Stole Christmas
Join Santa Clause and a concerned alien Mr. Freep, as they explore the solar system’s planets and meet the Christmas Eve needs of their fictitious…
Arrows of Time – A tribute to Dr Who | Immersive Experiences
Starring Colin Baker as The Narrator. Time and space are collapsing from within and the Doctors are trapped by the darkest enemy they have ever faced….
Length: 35mins
Magnetism
MAGNETISM demonstrates how the Earth’s magnetic field protects our planet from energetic particles from the Sun and galaxy, and how the magnetic…
https://immersive-experiences.co.uk/magnetism
Distant Worlds – Alien Life?
The night sky is effectively a view of infinity; could alien life exist out there somewhere? This film…
Length: 51mins
World 2 War
Place your students right at the centre of one of the most momentous periods of history with this 360° overview of World War II and…
Length: 29 & 42mins
The Hot and Energetic Universe
High-energy astrophysics plays a key role in understanding the Universe and it’s hot and violent nature. The hot gas…
Length: 29mins
The Trench
Audiences are transported back 100 years and surrounded by the infamous WWI trenches. The horrors of the conflict are implied but never shown, making…
Length: 24mins
The Earth and Me
When it comes to the health of our planet, each of us holds the power to make a significant difference. Just as…
Length: 26mins
A Glorious Dawn
A Glorious Dawn
A planetarium adaptation by students of A Glorious Dawn, the stirring short remix from Symphony of Science based on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.
In Cosmos Sagan forsees a wonderful future for the human race after it begins to colonise other worlds and travel to distant stars.
Inevitably, future spacefaring humans will encounter planets where the entire galaxy lights up the dawn sky, instead of one star – not a sunrise but a galaxyrise.
Preview the full video below. See the original YouTube release below it.
Film Type
Length: 3.5min KS4 – KS5 / Adults
Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
Discover spectroscopy, the science of light, and learn how scientists study the Universe by…
Length: 28mins
Journey to a Billion Suns
The immense distances between objects in space were not understood for ages and our Milky Way was a profound mystery…
Length: 30 & 45mins
Shining Light on the Stars – the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
One of the most powerful tools in astrophysics is the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, describing the…
Length: 16mins
From Earth to the Universe
The night sky, both beautiful and mysterious, has been the subject of campfire stories, ancient myths and awe for as long as…
Length: 30mins
Touching the Edge of the Universe
Experience a new view of the Cosmos with live actors and stunning graphics, filmed at various ESA…
Length: 45mins
Sunstruck
Discover the wonders of our Sun. Our local star’s incredible energy has supported life…
Length: 20mins
Dinosaurs at Dusk – the Origins of Flight
Travel through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous geological periods in search of the ancestors of modern-day birds…
Length: 30 & 44mins
MUSICA – Why is the Universe Beautiful?
Superbly visual 360° film presenting the idea that art, music, mathematics and physics are fundamentally related…
Length: 26mins
Extrasolar Planets
We live on a small planet revolving around a star similar in size, luminosity and location in the galaxy as countless others….
Length: 30mins
Climate Change
Learn about meteorological phenomena, explore our planet’s biosphere and examine global weather patterns in this dynamic 360˚…
Length: 25mins
Great Planet Adventures
With muscles and bones built for Earth, you’d be a superstar on the Solar System’s low-gravity worlds. Imagine bungee jumping into Space from an…
Length: 11 & 17 & 22mins
Nanocam
Two students complete an initially boring assignment with the help of surprising software called Nanocam….
Length: 27mins
Fractal Explorations
Fractals are a relatively new branch of mathematics that blossomed after the appearance of…
Length: 35mins
Fractals!
Fractals are never-ending patterns made from algebraic equations. Animated in 360˚ they take you on dazzling journeys in and out of infinity….
Length: 25mins
Dawn of the Space Age
A spellbinding account of humanity’s first attempts to leave planet Earth: from the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik, to the…
Length: 30 & 41mins
BIG
One of the most asked questions about the Universe is “How big is it?” and that’s one of the hardest to…
Length: 23mins
Astronaut
The exploration of space is the greatest endeavour that humankind has ever undertaken. What does it take to be part of this incredible journey? What…
Length: 23mins
Astronomy – 3000 Years of Stargazing
A tour of the major astronomical milestones of the last 3,000 years – from the cosmological models of antiquity, to the Ptolemaic system of…
Length: 32mins
Origins of Life
Origins of Life deals with some of the most profound questions of life science: the origins of life and the human search for life beyond…
Length: 23mins
Escher’s Universe
Unusual shapes, 3D constructs, dual worlds, unreal buildings and impossible continuities are revealed in this unique…
Length: 26mins
Amazing Astronomers of Antiquity
A journey of discovery from the Pantheon to the Library of Alexandria to the streets of Leptis…
Length: 21mins
Mayan Prophecies
Visit the classic Mayan cities to discover how the Maya aligned their temples to watch their sky gods and…
Length: 26mins
Diana Reichenbach : 0.1
0.1. is an immersive fulldome animated film exploring the evolution of human perception. As digital interactions become closely integrated with…
Length: 8mins