Our Pictureville and Cubby Broccoli cinemas regularly screen the best contemporary and classic films, and frequently welcome guests from the cinema industry to talk about their work. We pride ourselves in projecting films as they are meant to be seen, in a range of historical and modern formats from Cinerama three-strip to digital. Information on the films we screen, and many others, can be found in our online database.
IMAX
Our large screen IMAX cinema offers a daily programme of exciting large format films in 2-D and 3-D.
We organise three major film festivals every year - the Bradford International Film Festival in March, the Bite the Mango Festival in September and Bradford Animation Festival in November.
Our Animation gallery on Level 5 covers over a hundred years of animation with fascinating exhibits drawn from the Museum's collection, studios and animators such as Aardman, Bob Godfrey and Joanna Quinn.
Pride of place goes to our Cinematography collection - ranging across cameras, projectors, magic lantern slides, drawings, posters and documents - that traces the history and prehistory of cinema. It is housed in Insight, our Collections and Research Centre.
Cinematography Collection
Cinematography Collection
Explore an online selection of the Museum's extensive Cinematography collection.
What's On
Made in
Bradford
To mark Bradford’s bid to
become the first UNESCO
City of Film, the National
Media Museum is proud to
present a season of movies
with strong local
connections. Part of this season is the Ronald Harwood
Screentalk on Friday 15th August. An Oscar winner for his screenplay for The Pianist (2002), Mr Harwood was nominated for his screeenplay for The Dresser which shot in Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre.
What's On
The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience
The follow-up to the action hit Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne.
Film Extra
- Thu, 2 Oct
Making Stars and Making Movies - Sat, 4 Oct
Acting the Part - Tue, 7 Oct
The Crazed Masters: Documentary on the Edge - Click here for full details on upcoming events...
Film of the Week
Man on Wire
Dir. James Marsh
GB, 2008, 90 mins
Showing Times
- Today | Tomorrow
- 12:00 City Of God
- 14:15 Man on Wire
- 14:45 Apartment, The
- 16:15 City of Men
- 17:30 City Of God
- 18:30 Man on Wire
- 20:15 Apartment, The
- 20:30 City of Men
- Click here for more showings...
download Film guide (PDF) - showing feeds
Senior Citizen Screening
Gather every Thursday morning in Pictureville Bar at 10.30am for tea, coffee, biscuits and a film