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The Lion King Movie at Oxford Performing Arts Center

Location & Time
All movies take place on the lawn at 200 Choccolocco Street, Oxford, AL 36203. Showings begin at 8:00 PM, late enough for it to be dark enough for the projector to shine through.

Seating
Bring your own blankets or outdoor chairs. No seating is provided.

Food & Drink
Food trucks have been invited, and you’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks. No glass containers, and no alcohol.

Pets
Leashed, well-behaved pets are welcome. Please bring bags and clean up after them.

General Rules

Weather
Check oxfordpac.org/movies before heading out. Cancellations will be posted by noon on the day of the showing. Movies may be canceled for rain or high winds due to the size of the screen. Canceled showings may be rescheduled later in the year based on availability and licensing.

About The Movie
We’ve saved the best for last. What better way to close out an entire summer of outdoor movies than with the film that contains arguably the most powerful opening minutes in cinema history? As the sun rises over the Pride Lands and Elton John’s voice fills the air, something happens to every person watching — young or old, first-timer or hundredth — that is very hard to put into words.

The Lion King is a story about legacy, loss, responsibility, and coming home to who you were always meant to be. It is Hamlet filtered through the African savanna and brought to life with hand-drawn animation and a Hans Zimmer score that belongs in a museum. It is also, simply, one of the greatest films ever made — a movie that has meant something profound to every generation that has encountered it.

Watching it under the actual stars on a warm August night, surrounded by your community as summer draws to a close, is as close to a perfect movie experience as it gets. Come early. Come together. Bring everyone you love. And when that circle of life swells and Pride Rock comes into view, let yourself feel every bit of it.

The stars await. The king awaits. Summer ends here — and it ends beautifully.

Finding Nemo Movie at Oxford Performing Arts Center

Location & Time
All movies take place on the lawn at 200 Choccolocco Street, Oxford, AL 36203. Showings begin at 8:00 PM, late enough for it to be dark enough for the projector to shine through.

Seating
Bring your own blankets or outdoor chairs. No seating is provided.

Food & Drink
Food trucks have been invited, and you’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks. No glass containers, and no alcohol.

Pets
Leashed, well-behaved pets are welcome. Please bring bags and clean up after them.

General Rules

Weather
Check oxfordpac.org/movies before heading out. Cancellations will be posted by noon on the day of the showing. Movies may be canceled for rain or high winds due to the size of the screen. Canceled showings may be rescheduled later in the year based on availability and licensing.

About The Movie
Pack your beach chairs and prepare to be swept out to sea — in the best possible way. Finding Nemo is one of Pixar’s crown jewels: a breathtakingly beautiful, funny, and deeply moving film about a father who crosses the entire ocean to find his son, and a son who discovers he was braver than he ever knew.

It is a film about letting go. About holding on. About the way love makes us both fearless and terrified at the same time. And it is, in the humble opinion of basically everyone, one of the most gorgeous animated films ever put to screen — the kind of movie where every single frame could be a painting.

As summer begins to wind down and the school year starts to loom on the horizon, there’s no better film to gather around than one that celebrates adventure, family, and the courage to keep swimming no matter what. The little ones will be enchanted. The grown-ups will feel things they weren’t prepared for. And everyone, at some point, will say “just keep swimming” with a smile they can’t quite explain.

Bring the family, find your perfect spot, and let the ocean come to you.

Back to the Future Movie at Oxford Performing Arts Center

Location & Time
All movies take place on the lawn at 200 Choccolocco Street, Oxford, AL 36203. Showings begin at 8:00 PM, late enough for it to be dark enough for the projector to shine through.

Seating
Bring your own blankets or outdoor chairs. No seating is provided.

Food & Drink
Food trucks have been invited, and you’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks. No glass containers, and no alcohol.

Pets
Leashed, well-behaved pets are welcome. Please bring bags and clean up after them.

General Rules

Weather
Check oxfordpac.org/movies before heading out. Cancellations will be posted by noon on the day of the showing. Movies may be canceled for rain or high winds due to the size of the screen. Canceled showings may be rescheduled later in the year based on availability and licensing.

About The Movie
It’s one of the most perfect movies ever made. Not perfect for its genre. Not perfect for its era. Just perfect, full stop — a film so precisely crafted, so relentlessly entertaining, and so genuinely heartfelt that it has never aged a single day since 1985.

Back to the Future is the story of a kid, a scientist, a time-traveling DeLorean, and what happens when you accidentally erase your own existence. It’s an adventure. It’s a comedy. It’s a surprisingly touching story about parents and children and the people we become. It’s also the reason an entire generation checked their car’s speedometer at 88 mph at least once.

Watching it outside on a warm July night is an experience that captures everything great about summer: the ease of it, the joy of it, the feeling of being exactly where you’re supposed to be. Bring a picnic. Bring your best friend. Bring your kids so you can watch their face the first time they see the clock tower sequence.

Some things are worth doing right, and Back to the Future on a big outdoor screen on a summer night is absolutely one of them.

Jurassic Park Movie at Oxford Performing Arts Center

Location & Time
All movies take place on the lawn at 200 Choccolocco Street, Oxford, AL 36203. Showings begin at 8:00 PM, late enough for it to be dark enough for the projector to shine through.

Seating
Bring your own blankets or outdoor chairs. No seating is provided.

Food & Drink
Food trucks have been invited, and you’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks. No glass containers, and no alcohol.

Pets
Leashed, well-behaved pets are welcome. Please bring bags and clean up after them.

General Rules

Weather
Check oxfordpac.org/movies before heading out. Cancellations will be posted by noon on the day of the showing. Movies may be canceled for rain or high winds due to the size of the screen. Canceled showings may be rescheduled later in the year based on availability and licensing.

About The Movie
There are blockbusters, and then there is Jurassic Park. Steven Spielberg’s 1993 masterpiece didn’t just change what summer movies could be — it changed what movies could be, period. Even now, over thirty years later, the T-Rex scene in the rain is as terrifying as the first time. The velociraptors in the kitchen still make you hold your breath.

The moment John Williams’ score swells as those dinosaurs crest the hillside for the first time still gives you chills you didn’t know you had. Watching it outside, under an open sky, with the summer night stretched out around you adds a dimension that even Spielberg couldn’t have planned for — because you’ll be looking up at the dark beyond the screen and wondering, just for a second, what might be out there.

Bring everyone. Bring the kids who’ve never seen it and the adults who’ve seen it twenty times. Bring snacks you’re willing to share, because nothing brings people together quite like collective terror. This is cinema at its most powerful, most thrilling, and most alive.

Welcome to Jurassic Park.

National Treasure Movie at Oxford Performing Arts Center

Location & Time
All movies take place on the lawn at 200 Choccolocco Street, Oxford, AL 36203. Showings begin at 8:00 PM, late enough for it to be dark enough for the projector to shine through.

Seating
Bring your own blankets or outdoor chairs. No seating is provided.

Food & Drink
Food trucks have been invited, and you’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks. No glass containers, and no alcohol.

Pets
Leashed, well-behaved pets are welcome. Please bring bags and clean up after them.

General Rules

Weather
Check oxfordpac.org/movies before heading out. Cancellations will be posted by noon on the day of the showing. Movies may be canceled for rain or high winds due to the size of the screen. Canceled showings may be rescheduled later in the year based on availability and licensing.

About The Movie

What if the Founding Fathers were secret-society masterminds who hid a treasure so vast it could fund a nation — and left the clues scattered across America’s most iconic landmarks? Nicolas Cage decided to steal the Declaration of Independence to find out, and honestly, we respect the commitment.

National Treasure is the kind of gloriously fun, completely unhinged adventure movie that Hollywood simply doesn’t make enough of — a film that treats American history like a Dan Brown novel and somehow makes you love it even more for doing so. It’s endlessly rewatchable, endlessly quotable, and perfect for a summer night when you want to sit back, turn your brain to “fun mode,” and just enjoy the ride.

Kids will be gripped by the puzzle-solving and the chase sequences. Adults will be reminded why Cage became a legend. Everyone will leave with a sudden, inexplicable urge to go visit the Liberty Bell. Bring your sharpest minds and your wildest conspiracy theories — tonight we’re cracking the code together.

It’s a good night for history.

A Minecraft Movie at Oxford Performing Arts Center

Location & Time
All movies take place on the lawn at 200 Choccolocco Street, Oxford, AL 36203. Showings begin at 8:00 PM, late enough for it to be dark enough for the projector to shine through.

Seating
Bring your own blankets or outdoor chairs. No seating is provided.

Food & Drink
Food trucks have been invited, and you’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks. No glass containers, and no alcohol.

Pets
Leashed, well-behaved pets are welcome. Please bring bags and clean up after them.

General Rules

Weather
Check oxfordpac.org/movies before heading out. Cancellations will be posted by noon on the day of the showing. Movies may be canceled for rain or high winds due to the size of the screen. Canceled showings may be rescheduled later in the year based on availability and licensing.

About the Movie
Whether you’ve logged thousands of hours in the game or you’ve simply spent years watching someone else do it, A Minecraft Movie brings the most beloved sandbox world in history to life in ways no screen inside your house can match. The world of blocks, biomes, Creepers, and infinite possibility explodes onto our outdoor screen for a summer night that the whole family will be talking about for weeks.

It’s an adventure story at heart — full of creativity, courage, and the kind of wide-eyed wonder that Minecraft has always inspired in players of every age. For the kids, it’s seeing their world come alive in a whole new way. For the parents, it’s finally understanding what exactly has been so captivating about that blocky little universe all these years.

Come dressed up as your favorite character, bring your pickaxes (toy ones, please), and get ready for a night that proves once and for all that the best things in life are the ones you build yourself. Gather your squad, stake your claim on the lawn, and craft the perfect summer evening under the stars.

Remember the Titans Movie at Oxford Performing Arts Center

Location & Time
All movies take place on the lawn at 200 Choccolocco Street, Oxford, AL 36203. Showings begin at 8:00 PM, late enough for it to be dark enough for the projector to shine through.

Seating
Bring your own blankets or outdoor chairs. No seating is provided.

Food & Drink
Food trucks have been invited, and you’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks. No glass containers, and no alcohol.

Pets
Leashed, well-behaved pets are welcome. Please bring bags and clean up after them.

General Rules

Weather
Check oxfordpac.org/movies before heading out. Cancellations will be posted by noon on the day of the showing. Movies may be canceled for rain or high winds due to the size of the screen. Canceled showings may be rescheduled later in the year based on availability and licensing.

About Remember the Titans

Few films have ever captured the power of sport — and the power of people choosing to do better — quite like Remember the Titans. Based on the true story of the 1971 T.C. Williams High School football team in Alexandria, Virginia, this is a movie about what happens when a community is forced to confront its own prejudices and discovers, against all odds, something worth believing in together.

Denzel Washington delivers one of his most iconic performances as Coach Herman Boone, a man who demands excellence not just on the field but in the character of every young man under his watch. It’s a film about football, yes — but really it’s about leadership, dignity, friendship, and the hard, necessary work of becoming a team in the truest sense.

Watching it outside, surrounded by your neighbors and your community on a warm summer night, gives the film an extra layer of power. Bring your crew. Bring your kids who need to see what real toughness looks like. Bring your tissues, because the ending hits every single time no matter how many times you’ve seen it.

This is more than a movie night — it’s a reminder of what we’re capable of when we show up for each other.

Zootopia 2 Movie at Oxford Performing Arts Center

Location & Time
All movies take place on the lawn at 200 Choccolocco Street, Oxford, AL 36203. Showings begin at 8:00 PM, late enough for it to be dark enough for the projector to shine through.

Seating
Bring your own blankets or outdoor chairs. No seating is provided.

Food & Drink
Food trucks have been invited, and you’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks. No glass containers, and no alcohol.

Pets
Leashed, well-behaved pets are welcome. Please bring bags and clean up after them.

General Rules

Weather
Check oxfordpac.org/movies before heading out. Cancellations will be posted by noon on the day of the showing. Movies may be canceled for rain or high winds due to the size of the screen. Canceled showings may be rescheduled later in the year based on availability and licensing.

About Zootopia 2

Hot off its theatrical run, Zootopia 2 arrives at our outdoor screen just in time for a summer night you won’t forget. Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde are back, this time navigating their most complicated and dangerous case yet — one that pulls back the curtain on the founding of Zootopia itself and forces them to question everything they thought they knew about the city they’ve sworn to protect.

The dynamic between the ever-optimistic bunny cop and the street-smart, wisecracking fox is sharper than ever, and the film introduces a wild new cast of characters that will have audiences laughing, gasping, and cheering out loud. With stunning animation that expands the world of Zootopia into dazzling new districts and corners of the city, this sequel is a visual feast perfectly suited for the big outdoor screen.

It’s the kind of movie that reminds us why we love going to the movies in the first place — big emotions, big laughs, and something genuinely meaningful underneath it all. Bring the whole family, come with high expectations, and prepare to fall in love with Zootopia all over again.

The city never sleeps, and neither will you after this one.

Shrek Movie at Oxford Performing Arts Center

Location & Time
All movies take place on the lawn at 200 Choccolocco Street, Oxford, AL 36203. Showings begin at 8:00 PM, late enough for it to be dark enough for the projector to shine through.

Seating
Bring your own blankets or outdoor chairs. No seating is provided.

Food & Drink
Food trucks have been invited, and you’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks. No glass containers, and no alcohol.

Pets
Leashed, well-behaved pets are welcome. Please bring bags and clean up after them.

General Rules

Weather
Check oxfordpac.org/movies before heading out. Cancellations will be posted by noon on the day of the showing. Movies may be canceled for rain or high winds due to the size of the screen. Canceled showings may be rescheduled later in the year based on availability and licensing.

About Shrek

Once upon a time, in a faraway swamp not unlike your own backyard, a green ogre changed animated movies forever — and tonight, he’s doing it again on our big outdoor screen. Shrek is the film that had the audacity to ask: what if the fairy tale was a lie? What if the hero smelled bad and wanted to be left alone? What if the donkey wouldn’t stop talking?

The result was one of the most beloved animated films ever made, a movie that works on every level for every age. The kids will lose it over Donkey. The adults will catch all the jokes that flew over their heads the first time. And everyone will cheer when Shrek and Fiona finally get their moment.

Bring the whole family — the neighbors, the cousins, the people you keep saying you’ll make plans with — because Shrek is the rare film that turns a crowd of strangers into a room full of friends. Grab your layers, claim your patch of lawn, and prepare to recite every line in unison with a hundred of your closest companions.

After all, this is our swamp now.