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Big Screen Bucket List: 1917
At the height of World War I, two young British soldiers are given a seemingly impossible mission: cross enemy territory to deliver a message that could save 1,600 men, including one soldier's brother. Sam Mendes's harrowing war film is staged to appear as one continuous shot, putting the viewer in lockstep with its heroes.
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Big Screen Bucket List: 2001- A Space Odyssey
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
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Big Screen Bucket List: Alien
The crew of the commercial towing ship Nostromo answers a distress signal on a desolate planetoid—and unknowingly carries a lethal organism back on board. Ridley Scott's slow-burn sci-fi horror masterpiece introduced Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley and one of cinema's most terrifying creatures. Claustrophobic, industrial, and endlessly influential.
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Big Screen Bucket List: Back to the Future
Teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his eccentric friend Doc Brown. Stranded in 1955, he must ensure his teenage parents-to-be fall in love—without disrupting the future—before he can return home. A perfect blend of science fiction, comedy, and heart.
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Big Screen Bucket List: Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
In a perpetually rain-soaked Los Angeles of 2019, burned-out detective Rick Deckard is pulled back into service to hunt four escaped 'replicants'—bioengineered humans who have returned to Earth searching for their maker. Ridley Scott's 1992 Director's Cut strips the studio narration and restores the unicorn sequence, sharpening the ambiguity at the film's core.
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Big Screen Bucket List: Brazil
Terry Gilliam's dystopian satire imagines a bureaucratic future society buried in paperwork, ducts, and Orwellian absurdity. A low-level government clerk escapes through dreams of flight and heroism—until a literal clerical error pulls him into a conspiracy. Darkly funny, visually baroque, and fiercely anti-authoritarian.
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Big Screen Bucket List: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After an Indiana lineman's close-range encounter with a UFO, he becomes obsessed with a mysterious shape he cannot explain—as scientists around the world track similar signals toward a remote rendezvous. Steven Spielberg's awestruck 1977 vision of first contact remains one of cinema's most humane and wondrous science fiction films.
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Big Screen Bucket List: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee's lyrical wuxia epic follows two master warriors in Qing Dynasty China as the theft of a legendary sword draws them into conflict with a mysterious young thief and a vengeful outlaw. Blending gravity-defying action choreography by Yuen Woo-ping with a sweeping, melancholy love story, it became the highest-grossing foreign-language film in U.S. history.
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Big Screen Bucket List: Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick's hauntingly beautiful 1978 drama follows a young laborer, his lover, and his younger sister who flee Chicago for the Texas panhandle, where they become entangled in a love triangle with a wealthy, dying wheat farmer. Shot almost entirely during 'magic hour,' Néstor Almendros's Oscar-winning cinematography turns the film into a moving painting.
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Big Screen Bucket List: Gravity
A routine spacewalk becomes a nightmare when debris destroys the shuttle and strands medical engineer Ryan Stone and veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski in orbit with dwindling oxygen and no communication with Earth. Alfonso Cuarón's technical marvel won seven Academy Awards and is a near-perfect demonstration of what the big screen can do.
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Big Screen Bucket List: Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World
Peter Weir's Napoleonic naval adventure follows Captain Jack Aubrey and the crew of HMS Surprise as they pursue a superior French warship across the Atlantic and around Cape Horn. Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany anchor a rare grown-up blockbuster about duty, friendship, and command on a wooden ship in a wooden-ship world.
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Big Screen Bucket List: The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan's operatic crime saga finds Batman, Lieutenant Gordon, and DA Harvey Dent pushing back against Gotham's organized crime—until a demonic anarchist called the Joker throws the city into chaos. Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning performance anchors a genre-defining meditation on order, escalation, and the cost of heroism.
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Big Screen Bucket List: The Matrix
Hacker Neo discovers that reality as he knows it is an elaborate simulation controlled by machines that have enslaved humankind. Recruited by the enigmatic Morpheus and the warrior Trinity, he must decide whether to accept his role as the prophesied savior. The Wachowskis' reality-bending action classic rewrote the blockbuster rulebook.
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Big Screen Bucket List: The Mission
In 18th-century South America, a Spanish Jesuit priest and a reformed mercenary-turned-missionary try to protect a community of Guaraní from being sold into slavery by colonial powers. Roland Joffé's sweeping drama pairs Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons with Ennio Morricone's immortal score, and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
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Big Screen Bucket List: The Revenant
In the 1820s American frontier, fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly and left for dead by his own expedition. Driven by grief and vengeance, he crawls, swims, and claws hundreds of miles through brutal wilderness to settle the score. Alejandro G. Iñárritu's immersive survival epic, shot almost entirely in natural light, won Leonardo DiCaprio his first Oscar.
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Cinema for the Very Young
Every Tuesday and Saturday mornings at 10:30am, please join us with your little ones in the Studio Theatre for a free sensory-friendly Rated G or All Ages screening of a short film/series.
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Disclosure Day
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?
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Dr. Jill Biden VIP Wine Meet & Greet Reception
VIP Wine Meet & Greet Reception Following the Dreamland Conversation (This is a separately ticketed event.)
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Dreamland Comedy: Brian Glowacki
Nantucket native and nationally touring comic Brian Glowacki is back at The Dreamland this summer for two incredible nights of comedy. Taking a break for island fans in between touring some of the best comedy clubs and venues around the country, this is a night of laughter you won’t want to miss.
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Dreamland Concert Series: Corky Laing (of Mountain) & Friends
Hosted by actor and director John Shea, the evening brings together a rotating cast of local talent and national touring musicians for a one-of-a-kind celebration of Corky's storied career.
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Dreamland Concert Series: The Glenn Miller Orchestra
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Dreamland Kids — Stage Explorers Weekly Showcase
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Dreamland Storytelling: Lost & Found
The Dreamland will host our first ever summer editions of Dreamland Storytelling this year! Our celebrity and community (see below!) storytellers will gather around the themes of “Unchartered Waters” (Thursday, July 30th) and “Lost & Found” (Friday, August 28th) conveying tales filled with poignancy, humor, suspense, empathy and more.
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Dreamland Storytelling: Unchartered Waters
The Dreamland will host our first ever summer editions of Dreamland Storytelling this year! Our celebrity and community (see below!) storytellers will gather around the themes of “Unchartered Waters” (Thursday, July 30th) and “Lost & Found” (Friday, August 28th) conveying tales filled with poignancy, humor, suspense, empathy and more.
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Drive In: Dirty Dancing
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.
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Drive In: Grateful Dead Night in partnership with MUSACK
Enjoy an evening of The Grateful Dead under the stars, in partnership with MUSACK.
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Drive In: Inception
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
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Drive In: Jaws
One early summer night on fictional Atlantic resort Amity Island, Chrissie decides to take a moonlight skinny dip while her friends party on the beach. Yanked suddenly below the ocean surface, she never returns.
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Drive In: Jurassic Park
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
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Drive In: Mamma Mia!
An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on a Greek island is about to marry off the spirited young daughter she's raised alone. But, the daughter has secretly invited three of her mother's ex-lovers in the hopes of finding her biological father.
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Drive In: Minions & Monsters
This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.
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Drive In: Moana (Live Action)
Moana answers the Ocean's call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.
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Drive In: One Crazy Summer
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
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Drive In: Spider-Man - Brand New Day
Four years have passed since the events of No Way Home, and Peter is now an adult living entirely alone, having voluntarily erased himself from the lives and memories of those he loves. Crime-fighting in a New York that no longer knows his name, he's devoted himself entirely to protecting his city — a full-time Spider-Man — but as the demands on him intensify, the pressure sparks a surprising physical evolution that threatens his existence, even as a strange new pattern of crimes gives rise to one of the most powerful threats he has ever faced.
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Drive In: Terminator 2 - Judgment Day
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
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Drive In: The Goonies
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.
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Drive In: The Shining
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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Drive In: Toy Story 5
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.
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Drive In: Grease
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
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Drive-In: The Odyssey
Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.
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FFT: 10 Good Men
The B-17 Flying Fortress became an icon of American air power in World War II, but its legacy is written by the stories of the crews who flew it. Today, of the more than 100,000 veterans who flew on board of B-17 bombers during the war, there are only a handful remaining-but through years of searching, a few of the final survivors were brought together to tell this story one more time.
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FFT: Baby Doe
At 22, Gail gave birth alone and left her newborn in the woods. Decades later, she's arrested for murder, despite claiming the baby was stillborn. This documentary explores the fallout when young women cannot accept the reality of an unplanned pregnancy.
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FFT: Canoe Dig It
A glimpse into the world of Freestyle Canoeing following some of the country's top canoeists as they travel to the Moosehead Lake Regional Finals Competition in northern Maine to duke it out for the title of "Top Paddler".
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FFT: Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
From a lonely childhood to literary fame, her life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it.
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FFT: Reading Lolita in Tehran
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.
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FFT: Stories from the Balcony with Director Q&A to Follow
Stories from the Balcony is a documentary about growing up going to the movies in Frankfort, Kentucky, during the era of Jim Crow segregation. It is the story of community, love, and belonging, despite the discrimination and degradation faced by the Black community who were relegated to the balcony. The film has appearances from George C. Wolfe, Sheila Mason Burton, Mike Fields, Freddie Johnson, John Baughman, Vinson Parsons and many others. Katima Smith-Willis's voice brings a modern day perspective to the story with Mary Jackson as narrator.
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FFT: The Keeper with Director Q&A to Follow
A dedicated boat captain and his dog patrol the Hudson River, monitoring environmental concerns after decades of industrial damage. Despite improvements, their mission reveals ongoing challenges to this historic waterway's ecosystem.
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FFT: The Last Guest at the Holloway Motel w/Director Q&A to Follow
In 1970s Britain, Tony Powell was a star defender for Norwich City Football Club — until one day he disappeared from the public eye without a word to family or friends.
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FFT: Underland
A cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth.
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FFT: WBCN and The American Revolution with Producer Q&A to follow
A Peabody Award–winning documentary directed by Bill Lichtenstein, chronicling the transformative role of Boston’s legendary rock radio station WBCN–FM from 1968 to 1974.
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Golden Age Films: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
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Golden Age Films: Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Golden Age Films: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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Golden Age Films: Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Golden Age Films: Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Golden Age Films: Judgment at Nuremberg
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
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Golden Age Films: North by Northwest
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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Golden Age Films: Notorious
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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Golden Age Films: Our Town
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
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Golden Age Films: Peyton Place
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
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Golden Age Films: Roman Holiday
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
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Golden Age Films: Spellbound
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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Golden Age Films: Stagecoach
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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Golden Age Films: Suspicion
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
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Golden Age Films: The Apartment
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
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Golden Age Films: The Hustler
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
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Golden Age Films: The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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Golden Age Films: The Searchers
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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Golden Age Films: Touch of Evil
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
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Golden Age Films: Vertigo
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Harborview Concert Series: FOGGY ROOTS
Join us for the first time ever as Foggy Roots performs live from the Harborview Deck on two sure to beautiful summer evenings – Monday, July 13th and Monday, August 24th. The much-loved island reggae/rock band will be performing your favorite songs and greatest hits from a variety of artists and genres over the decades, featuring their own arrangements and (very) catchy danceable beats. Cash Bar available throughout the evening.
The whole family is welcome and children 12 and under enter for free, but be sure to secure your tickets soon!
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Harborview Concert Series: Local Notes (NHS Grads!)
Local Notes is a six-person band that started when four middle school students from Nantucket came together and tried out for Nantucket’s Got Talent at The Dreamland in April of 2018.
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Premiere Event: The Five-Star Weekend Wine Reception with Elin Hilderbrand
The Dreamland is proud to host the Nantucket premiere of The Five-Star Weekend, the highly anticipated new Peacock series based on Elin Hilderbrand's #1 bestselling novel — and filmed right here on Nantucket! After the seated program in the MAIN THEATER (separate ticket required), continue the evening at an exclusive wine reception with Elin Hilderbrand in the Harborview Room, catered by Lemon Press.
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Red, White & Blues: A Celebration of America at 250
Join us for a very special celebration of our country’s 250th anniversary at a one-of-a-kind party on the Dreamland’s beautiful second floor featuring live music and dancing with the Jamie McLean Band, a barbecue buffet - and if the weather cooperates - distant views of the 4th of July fireworks at Jetties Beach.
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Special Screening: INFLUENCED followed by a Conversation with Jill Kargman
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Storytime with a Princess: The Royal Court (Audience Tickets)
Step into a world of magic, mischief, and imagination at the Dreamland's most enchanting event of the season!
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Storytime with a Princess: The Royal Performance (On-Stage Experience)
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Supergirl
When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.
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Premiere Event: The Five-Star Weekend (first episode) with Elin Hilderbrand in conversation with Tim Ehrenberg
The Dreamland is proud to host the Nantucket premiere of The Five-Star Weekend, the highly anticipated new Peacock series based on Elin Hilderbrand's #1 bestselling novel — and filmed right here on Nantucket! Join us for a first-look screening of the premiere episode, followed by an intimate on-stage conversation between Elin Hilderbrand and Tim Ehrenberg of Tim Talks Books.
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Toy Story 5
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.
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