Join the Intrepid Museum for its seventh annual Summer Movie Series. Enjoy FREE feature films on the flight deck, under the stars!
This year, for the first time ever, each film will be introduced by a special guest, including Top Gun flight double and former astronaut Scott D. Altman, astrophysicist Dr. Steve B. Howell, author Jeffrey Kluger and more!
Bring your lawn chairs, picnic baskets and blankets. Guests are encouraged to bring their own food, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages.
REMINDER: Doors open at 7:30pm, and the program begins at sunset, weather permitting. Space is limited. Admission tickets (free of charge) will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis before the screening. One ticket per person. You must be in line to receive a ticket. All new arrivals must join the back of the line. Tickets will be distributed starting at 6:15pm, and ticket holders will be queued within the Museum complex. Be sure all members of your party are in line by 6:15pm.
May 22nd
Top Gun
Released 1986. Rated PG.
As students at the United States Navy’s elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis
July 9th
October Sky
Released 1999. Rated PG.
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father’s wishes.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern
July 16th
Moon
Released 2009. Rated R.
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems.
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott
July 23rd
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Released 1977. Rated PG.
After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
July 30th
Apollo 13
Released 1995. Rated PG.
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon
August 6th
Wall-E
Released 2008. Rated G.
In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Starring: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
