What movies have you seen in school?

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Now that school's out for most of us, I'd like to ask you about what feature-length movies you have seen in school. They can be movies you liked or movies you hated. They can be movies designed to teach a lesson or movies as a reward (I don't remember any of the movies I saw in school shown as rewards). They can be movies shown in K-12 public schools, K-12 private schools, and colleges/universities.

Here are some movies I have seen in school that have stood out in my mind:

"Microcosmos" (1995)-I saw this movie in 7th grade biology class, and what I saw was good, but we didn't see the whole movie. So I watched the whole movie later at home, and I was amazed, especially during the rain segment.

"Simon Birch" (1998)-I saw this film in 9th grade health class, and it led to me believing in God and later accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

"The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1980)-I saw this film in 9th grade government class, and it was funny and thought-provoking. I later watched the sequel of my own free will.

"Frankenstein" (1931)-I saw this in 10th grade English class, and I got to see the whole film in one day because it was only 71 minutes long and it was a double-period class. I've seen it several times afterward.

"The Sound of Music" (1965)-We watched this in 8th grade choir class, and took notes on it. I'm glad we did.

"William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" (1996)-I saw this in 9th grade English class, and the clash between 1590s Shakespearean dialogue and 1990s clothing, architecture and technology stood out in my mind. I've seen it two times after the fact.

[Cremildo]

The Eighth Day
City of God
The Matrix
Dangerous Beauty
Quest for Fire
The Last Temptation of Christ

These are the ones I remember.

Edit: I forgot The Passion of the Christ.

[DR Herbert West]

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Phantoms
House II: The Second Story
Eaten Alive
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Phantoms
House II: The Second Story
Eaten Alive
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3

The cornerstones of a solid education!

[BluBonnet]

Donald in Mathmagicland, and loved every minute

[Jay H.]

School was a long time ago, and I've blocked most of it out. I have a single movie memory: one of my teachers pressed "play" on a VCR, and instead of it being what she meant to show us, it was the horror movie Retribution (1987). It was the part where a guy takes a blowtorch to his own hand.

I wonder why I remember that.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Phantoms
House II: The Second Story
Eaten Alive
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3

Da hell school did you go to?

[CompleteCount]

Watership Down (to ages 5-9. Yep, you read that right!)
The Glitterball (Powerhouse CFF stuff)
The Outsiders
Unhinged (Yes, the banned "video-nasty" one)
Journey of the Sp*rm (educational, I assure you!)
Wombling Free (16mm)
Battlestar Galactica (the theatrical edit - 16mm)
Dr Who and the Daleks (16mm)
Hoppity Goes To Town (or Mr Bug Goes To Town - which lead to the popular playground chant of "Put your foot down - stamp out Hoppity")
Hobson's Choice (1954)


I'm pretty annoyed that I wasn't allowed to used the medical term "s-p-e-r-m". Ridiculous!!

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by mwynn

Da hell school did you go to?

You can't beat Miskatonic.

[Wildcat2000]

What school allowed those mature movies? College I’m assuming.

For me as reward (end of year fun days, for school projects and some educational purposes).

Land Before Time
Driving Miss Daisy
Space Jam and some Looney Tunes cartoons
One about a kid training to play basketball, don’t remember name

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Phantoms
House II: The Second Story
Eaten Alive
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3

this explains a lot about you......

[Rzzzz]

I was in junior high school in the 70's and some nut job hippie teacher decided to show us this film...



We all HATED it.

[starsteam]

Old Yeller
Gone with the Wind
The Outsiders
Transformers (2007)

So basically cinematic milestones.

[MuffinMcFluffin]

I know in high school Spanish we saw several animated movies with Spanish audio and English subtitles (like Finding Nemo, Toy Story, etc.).

I saw some interesting ones in college. The one that sticks out most is Being John Malkovich.

We also got to see snippets of R-rated movies as early as middle school, like Amistad and My Cousin Vinny (they were clean parts though). I believe I saw Glory in middle school in full, but can't remember if it was then or high school.

Now, as a math teacher myself, every year I show my students Memento (with consent) and they have to write a 2000-word paper connecting math and memory. They are provided a lot more than that to go off of (probably the biggest prompt/rubric they've ever been given, in fact). And on a block day if we're way ahead in the schedule, I give them a "mystery screening" of the movie Searching (no assignment or connection associated).

[steel_breeze]

I'm just going to go wayyyy back to high school and middle school in the 80's, since I saw too many (GREAT) flicks to name in my college undergrad and graduate school film classes. The two that really stand out are:

Chariots of Fire -- on VHS: not even sure what class it was in, but it was around 1984 and the movie made a huge impact on me, 'cuz most of the flicks my friends and I rented or went to see were horror or sci-fi or action. I probably own this movie today because of the impact it made on me in 6th or 7th grade.

The 400 Blows -- again, on VHS: French teacher showed us this in freshman year high school, and it kinda changed my world. Really opened the door for this average American kid to the world of international cinema.

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

The Eighth Day
City of God
The Matrix
Dangerous Beauty
Quest for Fire
The Last Temptation of Christ

These are the ones I remember.

I have a question. What educational value did "The Matrix" have?

Some teachers define "educational value" very loosely. In 1999, there was one elementary school art teacher that showed six-year-olds "Quest for Fire" because they were doing a unit on cave art. Not only is "Quest for Fire" rated R by the MPAA, it has no examples of cave art whatsoever. If this teacher wanted to give her students examples of cave art, she could have passed a book of cave art pictures around or given them a slide show of cave art pictures. It became a huge controversy. Here are a few articles about it. This is a chronology of events from the mother (Tawny Abalos) who first became aware of it because her daughter told her:

http://www.capalert.com/questforfire/questchrono.htm

This is the presentation the Abaloses made to the school board on September 21, 1999:

http://www.capalert.com/questforfire/questoralpres.htm

These are notes on the outcome of the meeting (it didn't go well for the Abaloses or for any of the other parents in attendance):

http://www.capalert.com/questforfire...21boardmtg.htm

And these are letters to the editor:

http://www.capalert.com/questforfire...rstoeditor.htm

If you're going to show a movie to kids in school, make sure you check the MPAA rating first and get permission from the principal.

[Socko]

The Blues Brothers, in parts, during music class.
I think this was in 1989-1991 or something.

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Donald in Mathmagicland, and loved every minute

So did I. We watched that on the last day of eighth grade math class before summer break. I liked it so much I watched it a second time at home. I can't understand why Disney didn't make it available on Disney+.

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

I know in high school Spanish we saw several animated movies with Spanish audio and English subtitles (like Finding Nemo, Toy Story, etc.).

You got it easy. In French class, we watched French versions of "Babe" and "The Lion King"-without subtitles.

[Streamingsux]

Major League is the only one that I can recall. I graduated 25 years ago lol..