What’s happening
in Pictureville?

From Monday 7 July until Tuesday 5 August Pictureville Cinema will undergo a re-fit of its projection booth. Unfortunately, throughout this period, Pictureville Cinema will be closed to the public. However, during this time we will continue to run a slimmed down programme in Cubby Broccoli Cinema. We apologise any inconvenience this may cause, and aim to keep delivering an exciting programme of film over the summer months.

We celebrate and interpret the world of film in a variety of ways.

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.

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

Film of the Week

Gone Baby Gone
Dir. Ben Affleck

USA, 2007, 114 mins

Showing Times

Senior Citizen Screening

Online Resources