Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater

Free timed-entry passes are required to visit the National Air and Space Museum in D.C.

Tickets to daytime films are only available for purchase on site, on the day of your visit. Tickets for after hours films can be purchased online.

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

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Air and Space Museum

Launch into the history of flight and space

Free timed-entry passes required

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

650 Jefferson Dr., SW
Washington, DC

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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Rolling Stones - At the Max

First released in 1991, Rolling Stones – At the Max is the critically acclaimed concert film starring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, and Bill Wyman. Filmed during the band’s 1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour, the result was the first-ever feature-length IMAX concert film, showcasing the incomparable talents of the Rolling Stones and their stadium-filling power.

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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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