The Screening Room · El Yunque · Rainforest Research Station

🎬 Now Showing: El Yunque Films

What Hurricane Maria Did to the Forest ✓ Approved

1:40 · NASA Goddard

A satellite fly-over shows El Yunque before and after the storm. As one scientist puts it, "Maria gave the forest a haircut."

Surveying the Damage from the Sky ✓ Approved

4:32 · NASA Goddard

Real scientists fly a laser instrument over El Yunque to measure how the forest is healing. A great "how science works" film.

Coquí in the Rainforest ✓ Approved

8:02 · Discover Puerto Rico

A dusk walk through El Yunque to meet the singing coquí frog, with Taíno words and forest sounds. English with Spanish woven in.

Parrots in the Wild ✓ Approved

1:44 · Lincoln Park Zoo

Rare footage of wild Puerto Rican parrots in the El Yunque canopy, and the team working to bring them back from just 13 birds.

Saving the Parrot from Bigger Storms ✓ Approved

4:30 · CBS News

A news report on the cotorra's comeback — live parrot releases and the scientists racing against stronger hurricanes.

The Forest After the Storm ✓ Approved

3:21 · featuring a USFS scientist

A Forest Service researcher walks the damaged forest and explains how a rainforest begins to grow back.

Explore El Yunque (Just for Kids) ✓ Approved

4:26 · Learning Puerto Rico

A cartoon tour of the forest layers, the coquí, the boa, and the parrot — ending with a quiz to become a Rainforest Ranger.

Conserving Wildlife in Puerto Rico

Para La Naturaleza on coquís, the sapo concho toad, and conservation careers. Long — your teacher will pick a clip.

Watch on YouTube →

📺 Offline Theater — on the Lab MacBooks

These NASA films are saved right on the lab computers, so they play even with no internet. They are public-domain videos from NASA — silent maps of how Hurricane Maria changed El Yunque's trees.

El Yunque's Canopy: Before & After Offline

~30 sec · NASA SVS (public domain)

Side-by-side laser scans of the forest in 2017 and 2018 — watch the green roof disappear.

3-D Views After Maria Offline

1:40 · NASA Goddard (public domain)

The same fly-over as the streaming version, saved to play without internet.

Surveying the Damage from the Sky Offline

4:32 · NASA Goddard (public domain)

The offline version of the laser-survey film — real scientists fly over El Yunque to measure how the forest is healing, no internet needed.

🗺 StoryMap School

StoryMaps School: The Playlist ✓ Approved

Playlist · Esri (official)

Esri's own how-to films — use the playlist button inside the player to pick a topic.

Build a StoryMap in 10 Minutes ✓ Approved

7:33 · Esri (official)

A full walkthrough of today's StoryMaps builder — the video version of HQ Mission 3.

A note from the usher: Every film here was watched start-to-finish and approved by a real Station ranger before it reached the screen. The streaming films need the internet; if the wifi is napping, the Offline Theater on the lab MacBooks still plays, and the written guides at StoryMap HQ cover everything the films do.