Movies that SHOULD be shown in school

[Jordacar]

Awhile ago I started my Crappy school movies thread, and now I'm wondering which movies y'all think should get more play in our academic lives.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Really interesting thread!

The first things that came to mind were:

To Kill A Mockingbird

And

The Shawshank Redemption

 

[Lighthouse]

Von Trier's Antichrist. It'll give them some much needed maturity.

 

[CGHulk]

To Kill A Mockingbird
Roots
Inherit the Wind
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Apollo 13
Saving Private Ryan
Mississippi Burning
Munich
Gandhi
Apocalypse Now

 

[matrix_ghost]

To Kill a Mockingbird
12 angry men
gandhi
Munich
Schindler's List
SAving Private Ryan & Full Metal Jacket
SLumdog Millionaire
Children Of Men
There Will Be Blood

 

[SPider-T0rch]

I took a political propaganda class in high school and most of them were pretty good. We saw American History X, Apocalypse Now, Philadelphia, Rocky, and we even saw Team America as a final

 

[Catman]

Requiem for a Dream

 

[Spider-Vader]

Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Shawshank Redemption
Empire Strikes Back
Lion King
Wall.E
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction

 

[MAN O STEEL]

Since everyone here is going with the "Show them deep meaningful fluff films with important adult themes, so they'll learn maturity blah blah blah". I'm gonna go the opposite way & say, Teaching Mr's Tingle with katie Holmes. it might show the teacher's not to f*** with the student's, co's karma's a b****.





Steve

 

[Spider-Vader]

I just picked movies that are really f***ing good.

 

[bullets]

Requiem for a Dream , to keep them off drugs

Passion of the Christ , religion

Inglorious Basterds , history

Fahrenheit 9/11

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

 

[Donut]

Tropic Thunder

They will learn about hostage negotiations & acting

 

[Ghostvirus]

It will also teach the kids in special ed not to go full ******.

 

[Donut]

Kick Ass is another good one on showing kids not to dress up & be super heroes & not to shoot your own daughter

 

[Ipodman]

Planet of the apes

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Platoon!!

 

[Jochimus]

I referred to the National Film Registry and whittled it down to a more manageable list that I think kids are likely to get more out of in the space of 12 years:

12 Angry Men
The Adventures of Robin Hood
American Graffiti
Back to the Future
Boyz n the Hood
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bullitt
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cool Hand Luke
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Do The Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Dracula
Duck Soup
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A Face in the Crowd
Frankenstein
Groundhog Day
Gunga Din
High Noon
In the Heat of the Night
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong
Lassie Come Home
Lawrence of Arabia
Little Caesar
MASH
The Maltese Falcon
The Mark of Zorro
Miracle on 34th Street
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Muppet Movie
A Night At The Opera
North by Northwest
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Planet of the Apes
Psycho
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Rocky
Schindler's List
Sergeant York
Shane
Singin' in the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
The Sting
Sunset Boulevard
The Thin Man
The Thing from Another World
This is Spinal Tap
To Be or Not to Be
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
West Side Story
The Wizard of Oz
Young Frankenstein

 

[Gamma Ray]

American Pie?

 

[Doctor Jones]

Alot of the films mentioned here have been shown in my school. We read To Kill A Mockingbird and watched the film, crime and justice shows Shawshank and Mississippi Burning. But let's face it. Alot of these movies would make kids fall asleep.

 

[Morg]

Planet of the apes

original or the crappy remake?

Not really a movie but Band of Brothers really should be shown at school

 

[Jochimus]

original or the crappy remake?

As far as movies that have been remade, I'd stick with the originals in this case.

 

[Electrix]

A Clockwork Orange

 

[Evil Twin]

I know this would be a losing effort, because I'd be including foreign and black and white films, and a few silents, and I can see modern kids eyes glazing over, but from world cinema....

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (to introduce students to the idea of German expressionism)

Battleship Potemkin (the corruption of the Tsars, communism and its appeal)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (religous history)

M (crime, the rise of Naziism, corruption of Weimar Republic)

The Grand Illusion (WWI, European class system)

Rome Open City (WWII, resistance to Nazis)

Bicycle Thieves (Europe post-WWII, economic depression)

Rashomon (the subjectivity of truth)

The Battle of Algiers (the end of colonialism, terrorism and its response)

 

[S.A.A.D.]

It will also teach the kids in special ed not to go full ******.

You shouldn't knock people who honestly have serious problems trying to learn things in high school. Some of them honestly try their best to try to get stuff done before they are temporarily defeated in their quest.

 

[weezerspider]

Passion Of The Christ(whether you are Christian or not, this particular story is one of the most significant stories in history)

Saving Private Ryan(American or not, it shows alot about war)

Schindler's List( This will be good for the kids especially with all of those idiots trying to claim the Holocaust didn't happen)

Lord of The Rings(This should be seen after reading the books or discussing their literary significance)

American History X(Great message)

Gone With The Wind(Not the most historically accurate film, but it gives a solid representation of the times and is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time)

The Dark Knight (Yes, I am Joking)