This series explores how film has tackled social conflict, morality, and the perennial struggles between right and wrong. Entrance to the film series is included with Museum admission during New-York Historical’s Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights (6 – 8 pm). No advanced reservations. Tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 6 pm.
Friday, January 29, 7 pm
Dr. Strangelove | 1964 | 93 min.
Director Ric Burns introduces this film in which a rogue general launches a nuclear attack on the U.S.S.R., sending the president and his war team scrambling to prevent doomsday. Join us for Stanley Kubrick’s iconic dark comedy that satirizes the pervasive anxieties of Cold War America.
Friday, February 5, 7 pm
Gloria | 1980 | 123 min.
Introduced by Laurence Kardish (Museum of Modern Art), John Cassavetes’ action thriller follows a woman who begrudgingly agrees to hide her neighbors’ son from a mob hit squad. Starring Gena Rowlands and Buck Henry.
Friday, February 12, 7 pm
Glory | 1989 | 122 min.
Historians David W. Blight, Edna Greene Medford, and Harold Holzer discuss the Civil War prior to the screening of this epic about the first all-black regiment, fighting for racial equality among their fellow Union Army officers as well as against the Confederates.
Friday, February 26, 7 pm
The Lives of Others | 2006 | 137 min.
Linda Greenhouse, Robert Post, and Kenji Yoshino discuss the themes found in this political thriller set in 1980s East Germany, where an officer of the Stasi is asked to survey a famous theatrical couple suspected of anti-government writings. (German with English subtitles)
