The history of movie screenings in the White House did not begin auspiciously. On February 18, 1915, D.W. Griffith unspooled his three-hour “The Birth of a Nation” in the East Room of the White House ...

One of the stars of the White House is no more. The White House Family Theater, the movie theater which first came to be in 1942 when a cloakroom was converted into a screening room, was demolished ...

A source says that the theater "will be modernized and renovated with the rest of the East Wing." Comcast, Amazon and Apple are among the private donors funding the planned ballroom. By Alex Weprin, ...

Lost among the flood of headlines about President Donald Trump’s razing of the entire White House East Wing to make way for his gilded, ostentatious monument to self known as the White House ...

This was where Jimmy Carter watched "Apocalypse Now" with Coppola pre-Cannes and Ronald Reagan lamented that "Reds" didn't have a happy ending. The history of movie screenings in the White House did ...