Giant Screen Films has carefully curated a collection of popular documentary films along with companion educational activities – perfectly suited for Virtual School Field Trips. Explore the program steps below, along with the films available and imagine the possibilities!

Contact fieldtrips@gsfilms.com for more information and to discuss pricing.

Why Virtual Field Trips?

Virtual Field Trips are an opportunity for museums, zoos, aquariums, and other educational institutions to extend engagement with core audiences as an alternative to in-person field trip. The program is flexible, allowing group sales teams to offer these films and activities as part of a larger branded package or as a stand-alone experience. GSF has produced “Field Trip Resources” for each film, which include a selection of educational activities, film posters, marketing materials, and additional behind the scenes assets. Most films are available in English, Spanish, & French with a choice of shorter or longer versions.

Premium Experiences, including live virtual chats with filmmakers or subject specific scientists are available at an extra cost.

How It Works

Step 1: Using the “Field Trip Resources” link for each film below, create packages to be offered to your school community. CLICK HERE FOR EXAMPLE

Step 2: Equip your Group Sales Department to spread the word and sell your Virtual Field Trips.

Step 3: Once a Virtual Field Trip is booked, notify GSF and within 48 hours we’ll create a custom film-screening portal for your client, allowing the film to be watched during a specific date range and by a specific number of viewers.

Step 4: Distribute the screening portal information to your client. Your Virtual Field Trip is ready to go!

Dinosaurs Alive!

43 or 22 Minutes

Dinosaurs Alive! is a global adventure of science and discovery – featuring the earliest dinosaurs of the Triassic Period to the monsters of the Cretaceous. Audiences will journey with some of the world’s preeminent paleontologists as they uncover evidence that the descendants of dinosaurs still walk (or fly) among us.

Narrated by Michael Douglas

Curricular Areas: Wildlife & Natural History | Prehistoric Life | Young Audiences Pre-K

Languages: English | Spanish | French                                                                                 Field Trip Resources

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Wild Ocean

45 & 24 Minutes

Wild Ocean is an award-winning, action-packed adventure exploring the interplay between man and our endangered ocean ecosystem. The film highlights one of nature’s greatest migration spectacles, plunging viewers into an underwater feeding frenzy, an epic struggle for survival where whales, sharks, dolphins, seals, gannets and billions of fish collide with the most voracious sea predator, mankind.

Narrated by John Kani

Curricular Areas: Wildlife & Natural History | Oceans & Marine Life

Languages: English | Spanish | French                                                                                 Field Trip Resources

 

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Wonders of the Arctic

42 or 23 Minutes

Wonders of the Arctic centers on our ongoing mission to explore and come to terms with the Arctic. Underlying all these tales is the crucial role that ice plays in the northern environment and the changes that are quickly overtaking the people and animal who have adapted to a land of ice and snow.

Narrated by Victor Garber

Curricular Areas: Wildlife & Natural History | Ocean & Marine Life | History & Civilization | Earth Science & Engineering

Languages: English | Spanish | French                                                                                 Field Trip Resources

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Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

39 or 25 Minutes

Part historic journey and part forensic adventure, Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs follows researchers and explorers as they piece together the archaeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies. Through ambitious computer graphics and dramatic reconstructions, the film tells the story of one of the greatest finds in modern history: the late 19th century discovery of a cache of forty mummies, including twelve Kings of Egypt, among them the legendary Rameses the Great.

Narrated by Christopher Lee

Curricular Areas: History & Civilization

Languages: English | Spanish | French                                                                                 Field Trip Resources

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The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea

40 or 24 Minutes

Exotic coral reefs, vibrant sea walls in the sub-arctic pulsating with anemones and crustaceans: these biodiversity hot spots are as vital to our lives as the rainforests. Groundbreaking macro cinematography explores these cities beneath the sea.

Narrated by Jamie Lee

Curricular Areas: Wildlife & Natural History | Oceans & Marine Life

Languages: English | Spanish | French                                                                                 Field Trip Resources

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Waking The T.Rex

23 Minutes

Waking the T. Rex: The Story of SUE traces the life of one of the most feared predators of the Cretaceous. Join scientists as they decipher fossil clues to piece together the lifelong struggles, from nest to death, of this famous Tyrannosaurus. Witness her life events unfold, including an epic battle with a Triceratops, in a world where the only rule is eat or be eaten.

Narrated by Joan Allen

Curricular Areas: Wildlife & Natural History | Prehistoric Life | History & Civilization | Earth Science & Engineering | Young Audiences Pre-K

Languages: English                                                                                                                        Field Trip Resources

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As pioneers in immersive storytelling for over two decades, GSF is a producer and distributor of enriching content that pushes the boundaries of new mediums – from large-format films to interactive virtual reality. Our productions challenge the imaginations and curiosity of life-long learners, young and old, offering unforgettable museum and media experiences around the world.