Film Program

35mm

The Bus, 1965 

In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was first signed into law in 1983, officially creating a federal holiday to honor this prominent leader of the 1960s civil rights movement. 

Documenting a Movement: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights

Screenings

The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness

Feb22 2-FAST-2-FURIOUS Standalone-banner

The Shining

Making Love (40th Anniversary Screening) 

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi 

The Oath of the Sword

DESK SET

Cabaret

Public Program

An-Evening-with-Arnold-Schwarzenegger

Conversations

For Museum Members

Free for Museum Members

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 

Stand by Me

The Aratani family boating at Lake Arrowhead, circa 1955.   Courtesy of the Japanese American National Museum Collection at the Academy Film Archive. 

Young Soul Rebels

Smoke Signals

The Book of Rhyme & Reason: Hip-Hop 1994–1997

SHANE

CASABLANCA

Fatal Femmes: Two Parisian Crime Films by Women  

Remembering Harry Belafonte: Buck and the Preacher 

The Manchurian Candidate, 1962

Limited Series and Spotlights

The Murals of East Los Angeles: (A Museum Without Walls) with Mur murs (Wall Walls)

Mar23 SPELLBOUND SpotlightMHL1-banner

Mar28 LA PALOMA Spotlight4-banner

Apr19 COLOR OF POMEGRANATES Spotlights7-banner

Ghetto Film School

May31 AMADEUS SpotlightMHL4-banner

Jun13 GILDA Spotlight6-banner

Thief and Cobbler

Color

Spotlights

Jun29 PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER SpotlightMHL2-banner

Jul12 JAWBREAKER Spotlight1-banner

Jul19 ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK Spotlght4-banner

Jul20 HACKERS SpotlightMHL2-banner

Sep7 BURDEN OF DREAMS Spotlight4

LadyInACage Weak

Special Guests

Oct26 CREATURE FROMTHE BLACK LAGOON Spotlight6

BLONDE VENUS

Nov3 DESTROY ALL MONSTERS GodzillaSERIESHERO1

thumbnail THE MORE THE MERRIER

Diane Warren and Armageddon

Selma

Wild at Heart

Mar6 WOMAN IS A WOMAN-Spotlight2

Mar19 GAS FOOD LODGING Spotlight3

Mar22 MARY POPPINS Spotlight1

REPERAGES select

May2 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN Spotlight2MHL

May23 BARBIE Spotlight1MHL

Rope

Feb15 THE MATRIX Cyberpunk

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Documenting a Movement: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights

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