Film - National Media Museum

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 four major film events every year – Bradford International Film Festival and Bradford Animation Festival, plus Bite the Mango and Fantastic Films Weekend.

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.

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The secrets of starting a
film career
On Wednesday 8 July, the directors of two outstanding ‘micro-budget’ films – Summer Scars and Gone Fishing – will be here for a Q&A film-making boot camp.

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Family Film Screenings
A programme of family workshops and activities accompanies each screening. See separate Families leaflet for further information.

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Soul Power
Zaire, 1974: a music festival unites black US stars with African musicians. We have a limited number of free gifts for the first people to book for the 2 July preview screening.

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Sleep Furiously at the National Media Museum

Neon Nights
Are you a student, or under 21? See the greatest range of new and classic films, in one of the finest cinemas in the country, for the bargain price of £2.50.