Access & accessibility

Descriptive subtitles

Descriptive subtitling is a service for hearing-impaired or deaf people.

Every Monday the Depot programme includes a selection of films with descriptive subtitles – a transcription of the film’s dialogue, in English, along the bottom of the screen. A description of the sounds in the film is also included. Caption subtitled screenings are helpful for people with a hearing impairment – and also for those who just struggle with strong English language accents.

Our programme also includes many films subtitled into English from other languages. These may also be suitable for deaf or hearing-impaired audiences but won’t always include additional descriptions of sounds.

Please note: Descriptive subtitles are produced by the film distributors and, as it’s a costly process, not all distributors have a policy of providing caption subtitles for all of their films.

All auditoria are fitted with infrared hearing systems. Depot can provide special headphones, or you can plug in your own hearing aid via a lanyard. There are hearing loops around the box office and food counter.

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For more information email or call 01273 525354

Upcoming Descriptive Subtitles Screenings
Parent & Baby ONLY: Hamnet 12A
Parent & Baby Screening: The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Mon 2nd Feb
12:00
No Other Choice 15
When a happy family man is dismissed after twenty-five years of loyal service at a paper company, he finds the perfect solution to land his next role: truly eliminate the competition.
Mon 2nd Feb
12:3019:50
H Is for Hawk 12A
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel.
Mon 2nd Feb
14:3017:15
Thu 5th Feb
20:30
Hamnet 12A
The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Mon 2nd Feb
15:2020:15
Tue 3rd Feb
20:15
Wed 4th Feb
17:15
Nouvelle Vague 12A
This is the story of Godard making ”Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.
Mon 2nd Feb
15:3020:30
The Voice of Hind Rajab 15
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue.
Mon 2nd Feb
18:00
Wuthering Heights TBC
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.
Mon 16th Feb
20:00
NT Live: The Audience 12A
Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry.
Mon 2nd Mar
20:00
National Theatre Live: All My Sons 15
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller's classic play.
Mon 20th Apr
20:15
NT Live: The Playboy of the Western World TBC
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.
Mon 1st Jun
20:00
NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 15
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel.
Mon 29th Jun
20:00

It is our policy that all our Monday screenings use descriptive subtitles where the distributors make the film available in that format.