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Opens February 22nd, 2025
Purchase tickets for opening night to enjoy a special presentation from the director, Jonathan Bird, at 7 PM.
Jonathan Bird is a filmmaker specializing in natural history documentaries, with a particular interest in underwater cinematography. He has won eight Emmy Awards for his television work. He is the host and producer of the successful family-friendly underwater science/adventure series Jonathan Bird’s Blue World, which originally aired on PBS for 4 seasons. It is currently airing on over 20 television networks around the world , and on YouTube, with well over a million subscribers. It is the most widely-watched underwater-themed program in the world, and used in thousands of classrooms (with free accompanying teacher study guides and lesson plans) to teach marine science and ESL.
Jonathan has directed three giant screen films: Ancient Caves (2020), Astronaut: Ocean to Orbit (2021) and Call of the Dolphins (2025). He also co-directed Secrets of the Sea (2022) with giant screen legends Howard and Michele Hall.
Opens February 22nd, 2025
Purchase tickets for opening night to enjoy a special presentation from the director, Jonathan Bird, at 7 PM.
Jonathan Bird is a filmmaker specializing in natural history documentaries, with a particular interest in underwater cinematography. He has won eight Emmy Awards for his television work. He is the host and producer of the successful family-friendly underwater science/adventure series Jonathan Bird’s Blue World, which originally aired on PBS for 4 seasons. It is currently airing on over 20 television networks around the world , and on YouTube, with well over a million subscribers. It is the most widely-watched underwater-themed program in the world, and used in thousands of classrooms (with free accompanying teacher study guides and lesson plans) to teach marine science and ESL.
Jonathan has directed three giant screen films: Ancient Caves (2020), Astronaut: Ocean to Orbit (2021) and Call of the Dolphins (2025). He also co-directed Secrets of the Sea (2022) with giant screen legends Howard and Michele Hall.
Explore vast underground worlds in search of geologic “fingerprints” that reveal clues about the planet’s history with paleoclimatologist Dr. Gina Moseley in Ancient Caves.
Moseley and her team of cave explorers travel the world exploring vast underground worlds in search of stalagmite samples – geologic “fingerprints” – that reveal clues about the planet’s climate history. Their quest leads them to some of the world’s most remote caves, both above and below the water, in France, Iceland, the Bahamas, the U.S. and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Together, they go where very few humans will ever go, revealing the incredible lengths scientists will go to study the unknown.
Film Details
- Run time: 40 minutes
- Rating: GA
- Format: 2D
- Narrator: Bryan Cranston
- Produced by Oceanic Research Group Films with support from the Giant Dome Theater Consortium.
This program sponsored in part through COCA’s Cultural Grant Program funded by the City of Tallahassee and Leon County. Your ticket purchase supports the Challenger Learning Center’s community outreach and educational programming.
Dr. Gina Moseley crosses the small lake inside the mouth of Grotte de Gournier in Vercors, France.
Dr. Gina Moseley brings gear down to support divers in Devil’s Hole Cave, Nevada.
Dr. Gina Moseley and John Ackerman searching for stalagmites in Spring Valley Cavern, Minesota.
Divers Brian Kakuk and Todd Kelly enter the crystal section of the famous Crystal Cave in Abaco, Bahamas.
Drictor Jonathan Bird (L) and support diver Todd Kelly (R) complete decompression after a 3-hour dive in the Crystal Cave.