Airbus IMAX Theater in Chantilly, VA

The Airbus IMAX® Theater at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center features the largest IMAX screen in Northern Virginia, towering six stories high.

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Hollywood feature-length films ranging from documentaries to narrative fiction are on mission for the Smithsonian. See our FAQ for more information.

Parking is free at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center for any feature-length movie that concludes after 5:30 p.m. Parking Vouchers will be handed out at the Airbus IMAX Theater box office. If a movie ends prior to 5:30 p.m., parking is $15 per vehicle.

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Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center

Aircraft and spacecraft in a hangar-like setting

Free, no passes needed

10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily
Closed Dec. 25

14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA

Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of the Sea

The mission to protect and defend the world's oceans has become far more complex and challenging in recent years, and naval aviation has become increasingly vital to success.

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Avatar: Fire and Ash

Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in the phenomenally successful Avatar franchise, opens exclusively in theatres worldwide December 19, 2025. James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (SamWorthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family.

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Deep Sky

Deep Sky brings the awe-inspiring images captured by NASA's Webb Telescope to IMAX®.

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Journey to Space

Discover how NASA’s shuttle program has led to its exciting new era of space exploration.

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Space: The New Frontier

Space: The New Frontier captures a time as epic as the Giant Screen, and as real as our present moment. Come aboard: life on earth or in space will not be the same again.

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T. REX

With leaps in CGI wizardry and revolutions in tyrannosaur paleontology over the past twenty-five years, the time has come to revisit rex in the world's prestigious museum cinemas.

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The Blue Angels

Soar with The Blue Angels in a brand-new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage that chronicles a year with the Navy’s elite Flight Demonstration Squadron.

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To Fly!

Take a multi-stop journey through the history of flight in this classic IMAX adventure. Watch the Earth drop away beneath as you ascend into the sky in an 1800s gas balloon; soar across the Arizona skies with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels and blast off into space on a Saturn rocket

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Wicked: For Good

Last year’s global cinematic cultural sensation, which became the most successful Broadway film adaptation of all time, now reaches its epic, electrifying, emotional conclusion in Wicked: For Good.
Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).

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Zootopia 2

In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Zootopia 2, detectives Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootropolis and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.

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