Outdoor Film: Iron Giant

The Iron Giant (1999) tells a cautionary tale about the Cold War. In a small town in Maine in 1957 (the year of the Sputnik launch), young Hogarth is obsessed with things extra-terrestrial. He’s the only one to take seriously a fisherman’s frantic reports of the landing of a metal giant, and his search is rewarded by the sighting of a metal-crunching, electricity-immune 50-footer in the forest. Based on Ted Hughes’s children’s book and as delightful as director Brad Bird’s later films, like The Incredibles.

Free. This film is rated PG and is a joy for every age.