ATHENS, Greece — Trip to ancient Greece is an improvement on the typical crusty Imax documentary.

Greece: Secrets of the Past is a cannily conceived big-screen experience.

For a host of reasons, not least of which the expense of their production and limited exhibition opportunities, films made in the big-screen Imax format are invariably crusty documentaries invested with educational values.

Rather than the typical Imax-film destination – Egyptian mummies, Mount Everest, space exploration – veteran big-screen director and producer Greg MacGillivray travels back to ancient Greece, to the volcanic eruption that buried Santorini and the golden age of Greek civilisation, in his latest venture.

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GREEK NATIONAL HOLIDAYS


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