Free world premiere of Jack Warner documentary at Bama Theatre March 28

The Warner Foundation announced a free, public world-premiere screening of the documentary Remembering Jack Warner: An American Patriot at the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, March 28, 2026, with a start time listed at 1:30 p.m. The foundation and venue are billing the showing as a world premiere and Instagram promotion names the theater with the handle @bamatheatre.

The screening was flagged publicly in a post that reads, "World Premiere of Remembering Jack Warner: An American Patriot is coming to the @bamatheatre on Saturday March 28th @130pm. This event is FREE" and the local radio site 95.3 The Bear published an announcement on March 3, 2026. Organizers list admission as free; the Instagram post is the only supplied source that provides a specific start time.

Background on the film’s subject comes from Warner Foundation materials documenting Jonathan Westervelt Warner’s life and work. The foundation presents Jack and Susan Warner under the banner, "Passionate About Patriotism, American History, Art and Civil Discourse" and lists Warner’s roles as "Philanthropist, Patriot, Veteran, Art Collector, Architect and Gardener." The foundation notes Jonathan Westervelt Warner moved to Tuscaloosa as a child after his grandfather Herbert E. Westervelt consolidated the company as Alabama’s first modern pulp and paper mill in 1929, that Warner graduated from Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana in 1936 and earned a degree in Business Administration from Washington & Lee University, and that he "served in the United States Army (Calvary) from 1941-1945 as a commissioned officer with the Mars Task Force in the Burma Theater of Operations."

Warner Foundation material highlights Warner’s art-collecting honors, saying he was "awarded the Frederic Edwin Church award in 2010 for assembling one of the greatest private collections of American art, including hundreds of paintings, furniture, and decorative art objects representing masterpieces of American art from the 18th century through the early decades of the 20th century," and noting the 2011 recognition by the naming of the newly opened Jack and Susan Warner Hudson River Gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of American Art in New York. The foundation also records that his collection was displayed and operated by his Foundation in the Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art from 2002 until 2011.

Several production and logistical details remain unlisted in the public announcement: the documentary’s director and runtime, whether filmmakers or Warner Foundation representatives will attend for a Q&A, and whether the free screening requires RSVP or will be first-come-first-served. Reporters or attendees seeking confirmation should contact the Warner Foundation, the Bama Theatre, or 95.3 The Bear for press and seating information; 95.3 The Bear’s March 3, 2026 announcement served as the earliest published notice.

Expect additional details on credits, post-screening programming, and press arrangements to emerge from the Warner Foundation or Bama Theatre as the March 28 world premiere approaches.