What movies did they make you watch in school?

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I recently got to watch "300" in my writing 101 class in college. My writing 101 class is focusing on comic books/graphic novels, which is pretty neat and interesting because I didn't have a lot of prior knowledge about graphic novels or comic books before taking the class.

I've watched so many movies in school, there's no way I could ever remember them all. (Plus I didn't bother learning the names of some of them.) But here are some I did watch:

Elementary School
That Darn Cat
Space Jam
How the West was Fun
The Little Rascals
October Sky
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Dennis the Menace

Middle School
A Goofy Movie
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Bill-Nye the Science Guy galore

High School
Dante's Peak
To Kill a Mockingbird
some movie that was just on TV yesterday

Trust me, there's a lot more...

The Outsiders (w/ a young Matt Dillon)
Of Mice And Men (w/ Gary Sinise & John Malkovich)
Less Than Zero (Yeah, they had to send permission slips home before we could watch this)
Paradise Road
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (It was in B & W. Was it an old BBC movie or something?)
Matilda (The boys in the class kept rewinding the movie when the teacher was outta the room. It took us nearly two weeks to finish watching it )
Toy Story
Gallipoli
Jurassic Park II
Dantes Peak (in Science class)

For English class we always watched the movies that were based on the books we were reading. If there was a movie based on the book we saw it

In grade 11 drama they also made us watch the old A Christmas Carol, and a new version of it called Scrooge.

Why am I thinking about all this now?

"Of Night And Fog" about the Holocaust and the Nazi Death Camps...
"Colossus, The Forbin Project" About a computer that takes over the world....
"All Quiet On the Western Front".....

i had to wach "brover bere"

Over the years I've had to watch Tarzan, The Merchant of Venice, another considerably worse version of The Merchant of Venice, one of the versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles, several versions of Macbeth, The Crucible, Spiderman, Madagascar, Stormbreaker and Amelie. I didn't particularly enjoy any of them.

The Life of David Gale
Rainman
Godafton, herr Wallenberg

Besides the obligatory movies about getting your period and educational films, I have had to watch:
- The movie version of The Taming Of The Shrew (shrillest. movie. ever.)
- The movie version of The Fall Of The House of Usher (it was MST3K-caliber)
- At one school I was at, we'd all watch a movie on Friday.
- Newsies
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Mean Girls
- Hero
- The movie version of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- My Neighbor Totoro

-MacBeth (witch boob central)
-Voyage of the Mimi (w a bunch of ret*d whales and Ben Affleck as a kid - he sucked then too)
-Romero (he dies at the end)
-Schindler's List (not making a joke about this)
-Some made for school movie about Emilio Estevez hating his dad, then becoming a cook (???)
-Some "smoke pot and you'll die" movie that had a young Adam Sandler as a drug dealer (his office was the toilet!)
-Bridge on the River Kwai (love that movie! "Madness!")
-Mask, (with Cher and Tom Skerrit about that kid Rocky)
-Les Miserables (read the book in French class, it was much better than the movie)
-Suburban Commando (ok, not really)
-The Lorax (an embarrassing load of commie garbage - by their reasoning, since we use plastic in just about everything, we should have run out years ago. More like the Whoreax!)
-the older version of Romeo and Juliet (still boring and sucky, but had 2 boobies and one bum-bum, so it evens out)

school was the first time I ever saw star wars, and I greatly enjoyed the original trilogy