150 years. Creativity. Unity. Endeavour. The last feature film about the Durham Miners' Gala was made in 1963. 55-years later, it's time to explore and document the world's most significant annual ...

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• Tue 22 Oct to Wed 23 Oct
• 91 minutes

Join us on 23 Oct at 7:30pm for a lecture by renowned speaker and storyteller Rob Caskie . The North West Passage Triumph and Tragedy in the Arctic Ice For decades Britain, Europe and America w...

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• Wed 23 Oct
• 60 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA DON PASQUALE (NEW TO THE ROYAL OPERA) Sung in Italian with English subtitles Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...

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• Thu 24 Oct
• 150 minutes

Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Joker” stars Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, alongside Oscar winner Robert De Niro, and is directed, produced and co-written by Oscar nominee Todd Phillips. “J...

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• Fri 25 Oct to Thu 31 Oct
• 122 minutes

Shaun is back! And there's a new arrival in town who's a little alien...meet Lu-La. Watch the official trailer for A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon – landing in UK cinemas October 18th. Strange li...

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• Fri 25 Oct to Thu 31 Oct
• 87 minutes

Join us on Spook Night for a screening of the 80s pop-culture phenomenon The Lost Boys (1987). Teenage brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to ...

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• Sat 26 Oct
• 97 minutes

Can Christmas be saved? Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa i...

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• Sat 26 Oct
• 81 minutes

RAYMONDA This event will be broadcast live via satellite. Music : Alexander Glazunov Choerography: Yuri Grigorovich (after Marius Petipa) Libretto Yuri Grigorovich (after Lidia Pashkova) Ca...

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• Sun 27 Oct
• 180 minutes

Shot on 16-mm black-and-white film and processed by hand, Bait tells a stark story rooted in local culture and community, and of how these marginal places are facing up to a changing world. Martin ...

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• Tue 29 Oct
• 89 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET CONCERTO/ENIGMA VARIATIONS/RAYMONDA ACT III From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Marius Petipa, to the homegrown choreographers who put British ballet on the ...

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• Tue 5 Nov
• 180 minutes

Hansard by Simon Wood Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. See two-time Olivier Award winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and Alex Jennings (The Lady in th...

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• Thu 7 Nov
• 180 minutes

Dementia Friendly Screening of Singin' in the Rain (1952) Working his way up from being a song and dance man to one of the top movie stars of the silent era, Don Lockwood finds his career in jeopar...

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• Thu 7 Nov
• 110 minutes

The Broadway 1980 musical filmed live at the West End revival in 2018. 42nd Street tells the story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young dancer in New York fresh off the bus from small-town America and ju...

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• Sun 10 Nov
• 142 minutes

LE CORSAIRE This event is a recording of a live performance. Music: Adolphe Adam Choerography: Alexei Ratmansky Libretto Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier (edited by Mari...

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• Sun 17 Nov
• 210 minutes

In a world driven by greed, what do we truly value? Timon has it all – money, influence, friends. But when the money runs out, Timon soon finds her influence and friends have also gone. Left alone, sh...

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• Wed 20 Nov
• 210 minutes

Present Laughter by Noël Coward Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour...

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• Thu 28 Nov
• 180 minutes

In collaboration with Hexham Town Twinning Association, we present a screening of Joyeux Noël (2005). With the advent of World War I, Europe is thrown into a brutal and vicious chaos as men are for...

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• Tue 3 Dec
• 116 minutes

Due to phenomenal demand, The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare's timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption, returns to cinemas this festive season. This beautifully reimagined production, co-directed...

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• Wed 4 Dec
• 184 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET COPPÉLIA A classic returns to The Royal Ballet repertory with Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia – a story of love, mischief and mechanical dolls. The intricate choreo...

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• Tue 10 Dec
• 150 minutes

After George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he had never been born, an angel (Henry Travers) is sent to earth to make George's wish come true. George starts to realize how many lives he has changed and...

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• Fri 13 Dec
• 130 minutes

THE NUTCRACKER This event is a recording of a live performance. Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choerography Yuri Grigorovich Libretto Yuri Grigorovich (after E.T.A. Hoffmann and Marius Petipa...

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• Sun 15 Dec
• 150 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET SPECIAL SCREENING THE NUTCRACKER (RECORDED 2016) The Royal Ballet's glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an...

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• Tue 17 Dec
• 135 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET THE SLEEPING BEAUTY This production of The Sleeping Beauty has delighted audiences in Covent Garden since 1946. A classic of Russian ballet, it established The Royal Ballet both i...

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• Thu 16 Jan
• 180 minutes

GISELLE New production This event will be broadcast live via satellite. Music: Adolphe Adam Choerography: Alexei Ratmansky Libretto Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges Cast: The...

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• Sun 26 Jan
• 150 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA LA BOHÈME Sung in Italian with English subtitles Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyrical arias, celebratory choruse...

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• Wed 29 Jan
• 150 minutes

SWAN LAKE This event will be broadcast live via satellite. Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choerography: Yuri Grigorovich Libretto Yuri Grigorovich Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists an...

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• Sun 23 Feb
• 165 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET MARSTON & SCARLETT WORLD PREMIERES Choreographer Cathy Marston is previously an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and much in demand internat...

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• Tue 25 Feb
• 150 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA FIDELIO (NEW PRODUCTION) Sung in German with English subtitles Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted...

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• Tue 17 Mar
• 150 minutes

ROMEO AND JULIET This event is a recording of a live performance. Music: Sergei Prokofiev Choerography: Alexei Ratmansky Libretto Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Radlov and Adrian Piotrovsky (after W...

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• Sun 29 Mar
• 185 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET SWAN LAKE Liam Scarlett’s glorious production of Swan Lake, new in 2018, returns for its first revival. While remaining faithful to the Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov text, Scarlett’s a...

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• Wed 1 Apr
• 180 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/ PAGLIACCI Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian...

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• Tue 21 Apr
• 180 minutes

JEWELS This event will be broadcast live via satellite. Music: Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choerography: George Balanchine Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists...

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• Sun 26 Apr
• 165 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET THE DANTE PROJECT (WORLD PREMIERE) Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysti...

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• Thu 28 May
• 180 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA ELEKTRA (NEW PRODUCTION) Sung in German with English subtitles Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director...

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• Thu 18 Jun
• 120 minutes