Travel Through Land, Sea & Air With Four IMAX Films On HD DVD

Image Entertainment has announced that Coral Reef Adventure, Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag, Mystery of the Nile & The Alps will be available to own in high-definition exclusively on HD DVD from April 8, 2008 at $24.99 SRP each. Specific details follow... stay tuned for further updates.

Coral Reef Adventure (2003) / 43 minutes

• 1080p High Definition 16x9 1.78:1
• Dolby Digital-Plus 5.1 (English)
• Synopsis:
  Take a once in a lifetime journey across the South Pacific for a spectacular IMAX adventure. Joy; ecstasy; a spiritual high: these words describe the exhilaration of diving a pristine coral reef, and ocean explorers Howard and Michele Hall bring their love of the ocean into action. With Jean-Michael Cousteau, deep reef scientist Richard Pyle and Fijian diver Rusi Vulakoro, they explore and capture on film the dazzling underwater world of coral reefs, magical places here on Earth. This tropical excursion through the South Pacific will surprise and delight you as you fall in love with the reefs, and your heart will ache at the tragic, irretrievable loss of these fragile worlds.

*****

Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (2004) / 48 minutes

• 1080p High Definition 16x9 1.78:1
• Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (English)
• Synopsis:
  A state-of-the-art, edge of your seat experience! Get in the cockpit with the world's best pilots to witness the most challenging flying of their careers! Follow a young American pilot as he makes his way through Red Flag - the world's most intense, simulated air war, training event - where U.S. and international pilots, ground crews, mechanics and rescue personnel are taken to the limits of their endurance. Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag delivers speeds of up to 800 miles per hour with thundering, roaring, screaming sound and stunning aerobatics that will blow you away! Filmed over the Nevada desert with unprecedented access to military procedures, the film features an enormous armada of aircraft including four American squadrons of F-15C Eagles and F-15E Strike Eagles, F-16 Aggressors, Stealth F-117s, B-1B Lancers, B-2 Stealth bomber, C-17 Globemaster III, a U-2R and more...

*****

Mystery of the Nile (2005) / 47 minutes

• 1080p High Definition 16x9 1.78:1
• Dolby Digital-Plus 5.1 (English)
• Synopsis:
  Join a team of explorers on the expedition of a lifetime as they set off to become the first to navigate the Blue Nile from source to sea. The epic 3,260 mile descent down the world's greatest and deadliest river has eluded humankind for centuries - until now! Ride shotgun on the team's 16-foot rafts as they crash through the rapids in Ethiopia's desert canyons. Battle through some of the world's most extreme whitewater rapids with renowned kayaker, Gordon Brown. Over the arduous, four month journey, the team faces nearly in-surmountable challenges - from crocodile attacks to armed bandits and arrests. Through breathtaking cinematography, Mystery of the Nile

*****

The Alps (2007) / 45 minutes

• 1080p High Definition 16x9 1.78:1
• Dolby Digital-Plus 5.1 (English)
• Synopsis:
  In the air above Switzerland, on the sheer rock-and-ice wall known as the Eiger, an American climber is about to embark on the most perilous and meaningful ascent he has ever undertaken: an attempt to scale the legendary mountain that took his renowned fathers life. Against a backdrop of overwhelming natural beauty, The Alps is a true-life story of extrodinary courage. It's the intensely personal journey of a man who has every reason not to climb the deadly Eiger North Face, yet climb it he must. Featuring some of the most spectacular giantscreen imagery yet seen, the film celebrates the unsurpassed beauty of the Alps and the indomitable spirit of the people who live there.