However your laptop computer or tv might be very open for enterprise — and at the very least two of the studios specializing in large-format movies proven in museums supply them for smaller screens, too.

MacGillivray Freeman, a movie studio that received its begin making surf documentaries, has since shifted its focus to academic Imax movies. It has a group of movies for lease on screening providers similar to Amazon and Vimeo, together with “Nationwide Parks Journey,” a Robert Redford-narrated movie that serves up mouthwatering views of America’s protected nationwide wonders, and “Dream Massive,” which celebrates engineering and innovation and is narrated by Jeff Bridges.

Giant Screen Films now has three of its academic movies on-line at no cost. They embrace “Wild Ocean,” a movie about sardine migration off the coast of South Africa; “Dinosaurs Alive,” narrated by Michael Douglas, which follows American Museum of Pure Historical past paleontologists on the hunt for fossils and options computer-animated dinos; and “Mummies: Secrets and techniques of the Pharaohs,” which follows researchers and explorers as they unravel the secrets and techniques of Egyptian mummies.

Positive, the movies lose a little bit of their punch if you’re not viewing them on a stories-high display screen. However they nonetheless look spectacular — and maintain consideration — on tablets, TVs and cellphone screens. And if it is advisable to maintain your youngsters’ consideration for even longer, strive utilizing the free educators’ guides, crammed with actions and data, that every firm gives together with the movies.