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Films are shown in the Modern’s auditorium and capacity is limited to the first 250 people. Tickets are $5 for adults (FREE for members and children under 16) and are available at the Museum’s admission desk or online here.

Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round

Directed by Ilana Trachtman, 2024
89 minutes

When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in US history was born.

Waves

Directed by Jiří Mádl, 2024
131 minutes

A historical thriller set during the 1968 Prague Spring, focusing on journalists at Czechoslovak Radio who defied Soviet censorship. The film follows Tomáš, a technician forced by the StB, the Czech secret police, to spy on his colleagues in order to protect his younger brother, as they fight for free speech during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Broken Land

Directed by Joseph T. Walker, 2024
97 minutes

An embittered Texas border rancher mistakenly shoots a young migrant woman as she crosses his property and must decide whether to help her, risking discovery by his estranged son, a Border Patrol Agent.