Watch the World Series and a film at Rio Theater

The two dozen people who purchased the Rio Theater expressed a desire to encourage and act on suggestions from the community as well as from each other.

As a result, the little theater in Monte Rio has been screening of films of local interest that rarely find their way to mainstream theater screens and special events that are broadcast on TV, including free live big screen broadcasts of the World Series. Scheduled films will be screened after the games.

Friday, Oct. 24 through Thursday, Oct. 30, “Pride” is on the schedule. It’s a film about a 1984 Margaret Thatcher-period National Union of Mineworkers strike, which prompted a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families.

In the film based on real events, the group targets a tiny Welsh mining village in which to make their donation in person, which solidifies and strengthens all involved.

On Nov. 8, The Rio will host dinner and a movie in collaboration with History/Pin, which describes itself as a “global community collaborating around history.” The event will feature swing music from the 1940s, a modern take on vintage foods, newsreels from April 1945 and a diverse round-table of experts and firsthand accounts of life on the home front and the front lines.

Brad Pitt’s latest film, “Fury” (the name given a Sherman tank), will follow dinner, touching on the horrors of war and bonding among the troops.

You’ll be able to share your own personal or family stories at www.historypin.org, and the Rio will display and raffle off reproductions of maps, war bond posters and digitally restored films from the National Archives collection.

Somehow experiencing ’40s history and World War II in a septuagenarian quonset hut seems appropriate.

Contact River correspondent Stephen D. Gross at sdgross@sonic.net.