Director Bruce Neibaur's dramatic recreation of the epochal Lewis and Clark expedition — an undertaking that was in its day (1803-1806) equivalent in difficulty and danger to a trip to the moon — represents a truly spectacular use of the IMAX format. All history lessons should be as enthralling. Filmed mostly on the actual locations, the film chronicles the expedition's 8000-mile journey from the mouth of the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and back, across a wilderness that only Native Americans had ever seen. Along the way, they identified and catalogued hundreds of plant and animal species and basically changed the course of America's history. Screen...
Released:
2002
Rated:
G
Length:
42 mins