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Bernstein’s Wall traces Leonard Bernstein’s lifelong struggle to create social change and bring people together through his work. Special talkback post show with Jamie Bernstein and Director Douglas Tirola moderated by Susan Granger.

Steven Spielberg’s first science fiction film is an absolute classic, starring Richard Dreyfuss as an ordinary man whose life gets turned upside down after a run-in with a UFO

One of the most influential fantasy films ever, The Day The Earth Stood Still was the first big-budget studio sci-fi movie in modern film history and featured the first "flying saucer.”

Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of space voyage sci-fi movies, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be adopted into many flicks and TV shows to come. Leslie Nielsen (back when his acting was unintentionally funny) plays a spaceship commander who brings his crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the remarkable Robby the Robot… and to a mysterious terror.