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To What Remains is the story of Project Recover, a small team of accomplished scientists, oceanographers, archaeologists, historians, researchers, and military veterans, who have dedicated their lives to scouring the depths of the ocean and the farthest corners of the earth, to search for, recover, and repatriate the remains of the more than 80,000 Americans missing in action since WWII.  Screening of the documentary To What…
Come celebrate the beginning of a new year with the Residence Hall Association and The National Residence Hall Honorary on Myers Quad. There will be games, snacks and goal setting opportunities.
MSP Drive-In Series highlights a specific culture for that heritage month. This month is Black History Month.   
We regret that we need to cancel this event. Thanks for your understanding.  Screening of Golden Gate Girls for Women's History Month.  
We regret that we need to cancel this event. Thanks for your understanding.  Screening of Standing on my Sister's Shoulders for Women's History Month.  
We regret that we need to cancel this event. Thanks for your understanding.  Screening of Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice for Women's History Month.  
Talking Black in America is based on decades of research involving language dialects from all parts of the United States and aims to shine a light on ignored or misunderstood contributions of African Americans to American language and life more broadly. Jon Forrest, assistant professor of linguistics at UGA, will lead a discussion after the screening.
Union is take-taking students out to the drive-in with a showing of The Sandlot in Lot E01/Intramural Fields Lot. Bring a car full of friends and watch it together.
Union brings the big screen to campus with Movie on Meyers. Enjoy a movie screening on Meyers Quad; be sure to bring a blanket!  
This year, Student Activities is showing one of the most popular films of the year for this event under the stars. Bring a blanket and new friends and enjoy an outdoor showing of a film on a warm night. Welcome UGA is a campus-wide collaboration to provide students numerous opportunities in the first six weeks of the fall semester to meet new people, engage with departments and organizations and learn more about UGA.    
Part of the Deep Blue Sea Film Series. Thousands of miles away from civilization, Midway Atoll is in one of the most remote places on earth. And yet it’s become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, syphoning plastics from three distant continents. In this independent documentary film, journalist/filmmaker Angela Sun travels on a personal journey of discovery to uncover this mysterious phenomenon. Along the way she meets scientists,…
Part of the Deep Blue Sea Film Series. Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline copilot (Owen Wilson), a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett) and Zissou’s…
Part of the Deep Blue Sea Film Series. Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. Divers, photographers and scientists set out on an ocean adventure to discover why the reefs are disappearing and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world. 2017, NR, 93 min.  
This documentary film, directed by longtime Athens residents Kathy Prescott and Grady Thrasher, examines the evolution of the personality of Athens as a community over the past six decades, as experienced and told by 90 Athenians from differing viewpoints. 2017, NR, 88 min. Presented in conjunction with “Our Town and Beyond: Works by Early Members of the Athens Art Association.”
“For Home and Country” World War I Film Series: "Lawrence of Arabia" In Lawrence of Arabia, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across…
In this film adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer-Prize winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch and her older brother, Jem, live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley (Robert Duvall). When Atticus (Gregory Peck), their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) against fabricated rape charges, the…
Wise Blood is the film adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s acclaimed 1952 novel. After returning home from World War II, uneducated and irreligious U.S. Army veteran Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) decides to make his way in the world by impersonating a priest and starting his own religion. Motes soon attracts a follower—a manic potato peeler named Enoch Emery (Dan Shot)—but things get complicated when he encounters fellow sidewalk charlatans Asa…
Southern Women Artists Film Series: “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” The film adaptation of Carson McCullers’ famous novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, stars Alan Arkin. When deaf-mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady’s sensitive 16-year-old daughter. (1968, G, 122 min.) Presented in conjunction with Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the…
Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last grand duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick and embarks on a one-day bacchanal through the streets of Chicago, including a classic scene at the Art Institute of Chicago. Directed by John Hughes. (1986, PG-13, 103 minutes).
Debonair, adventuresome billionaire Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) is bored of being able to buy everything he desires and cultivates a secret hobby: stealing priceless works of art. He believes he has pulled off the perfect multimillion-dollar heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art but matches wits with an insurance investigator (Rene Russo) who will do anything to get her man. (1999, R, 113 minutes).
A newly-recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc. Starring Ben Stiller and Ricky Gervais. (2006, PG, 108 minutes).
Great diversity of subjects, opinions, expertise and sources in this month's round-up faculty, students and alumni appearing in the media: Can narcissists actually change their ways? We asked the experts – professor of psychology  Keith Campbell quoted in Huffington Post Researchers receive $10M to create computational and informatics tools for glycoscience – project co-led by Professor of biochemistry and molecular biology …
Live from Bethlehem, chronicles the struggles, failures and triumphs of the Ma'an News Network, the only major independent news source in the Palestinian Territories. Following the lives of the station's reporters, producers and photographers, this documentary provides an in-depth, balanced look into the challenges of making news in one of the world's most combative regions. A highly observational film, Live From Bethlehem focuses…
Join the Georgia Museum of Art for films discussed by scholars, filmmakers and students. Each film will include a 15-minute introduction by a guest speakers and short conversations about the film following the screening. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris.” “An American in Paris,” with its gorgeous dance sequences and beautiful, frequently melancholic Gershwin score, won the Academy Award for…
Film screening and discussion. Film summary: "Yawar Mallku" (Blood of the Condor) is a 1969 film by Jorge Sanjinés. Set in Bolivia, the film tells the story of a Peace Corps-like American agency that is secretly sterilizing indigenous women under the guise of providing health care, provoking an uprising by the targeted population. Based upon information shared with the filmmaker by the indigenous population. Discussant: Khédija Gadhoum…

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