AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center (commonly called as AFI Silver) is a three-screen movie theater complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, north of Washington, D.C.[1] It is operated by the American Film Institute.

It occupies the former home of the 1,100-seat Silver Theatre, whose 1938 building was designed by movie palace architect John Eberson.

[2] The Silver Theatre closed in 1985, and the building stood empty until 2001, when restoration began.

[3] As of 2017, the theater now shows "upward of 600 movies per year" including "first-run features, classics, obscure archival prints, rarities from global cinema and the odd locally made one-off".

From 2003 to 2022, the theater hosted an annual documentary festival called Silverdocs and then AFI Docs.