What movies did they make you watch in school?

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Grade 6: La Bande a Munsch, French Robert Munsch cartoons for French class. We watched about 10 of them, including The Paper Bag Princess, 50 Below Zero, and others.


Grade 7: In French class we watched a French movie about dolphins and a girl named Daphnee, a story about dogs, and a family story...

In religion class in grade 7 or 8 we watched a movie about Caoligula and Miriam and Jesus and the Roman Empire... we also watched a cartoon about Joseph's life...


In grade 9 advanced French class we watched Chevalier (in English it's A Knight's Tale) and Les Miserables. We also watched English movies in the dumb French class I was in before... one about this Oriental girl getting kidnapped for ransom, one about this girl named Jamie who met this guy, they misunderstood each other, Jamie's father was a priest, Jamie had cancer, I think it's a pretty popular story.


Grade 10 English class:

Silas Marner
Rob Roy
Les Miserables
Run Lola Run
Harold and Maude
something about a simulation of learning disabilities in normal people who were studying to become teachers
something like Silas Marner but modern and about a girl named Matilda

World history: The Pianist


Grae 11:

English:
A Separate Peace
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

French:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off in English

Grade 12:


Drama: The Warriors


English: this movie about this old guy named Albin who travelled across state lines on his lawnmower, has a daughter played by Cissy Spacek... wierd guy, interesting movie.


There were probably others I forget!

In my school we watched "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Corinna, Corinna", "Jean De Florette", "Manon Des Sources" and "Twelfth Night". There were probably others, but these are the only ones I can remember right now. ;^^

Ocean's Eleven, the original version with Frank Sinatra.

I'm still recovering.

Ed Almos

hmmm... If I recall, i was pretty young when we watch shilo and the 1st TMNT movie.

also, later some movie about 3 witches trying to get some book with a moving eye, that was kinda funny

apolo 13

Jeeze, i cant remember anymore, i know their was a bunch more.

We always watched Mulan a couple times a year. That was a pretty big waste of time if you ask me.

I have watched quite a few

Primary School a load of kids films I remember watching (falling asleep to) The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Babe, Jungle Book

At Secondary school we watched films for education.
Titanic/A Night To Remember
Romeo and Juliet old version and new version.

8th
Apollo 13
The Outsiders
Various Indiana Jones films
The Nasty Girl (I think that was the title... it was some bizarre German movie about a high-school girl who married her middle-aged teacher, and then they became spies or something.)

9th
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Emerald Forest
The Ring

10th
La Gloire de Mon Pere
Into Thin Air
Driving Miss Daisy

11th
Les Choristes
Patton
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Girl, Interrupted

I remember my freshman English teacher refused to believe that that movie existed. (We wanted to watch the movie after reading the book.) After weeks of trying to convince her, someone finally got ahold of a VHS tape and brought it in to show her... she, of course, claimed that the copy he had must have been a bootleg or something, because the film 'A Seperate Peace' didn't exist. The whole situation was pretty hilarious.
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Munich
V for Vendetta
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
28 Days Later
Hotel Rwanda

Did they really have to force you?

We had to watch "From Boy To Man" in 6th Grade, you can guess what that was about. My Dad was one of only three that showed up. I guess that is why he never gave me the talk behind the shed. It is also why I am probably still clueless. The only other movie I ever saw in school was a field trip in 11th Grade to see "The Glass Menagerie".

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Stranger than Fiction

Manon des Sources
Jean de Florette
Henry V
The Neverending Story

Wow, all my school ever seemed to show us was romeo and juliet (zefferelli version) and Hoosiers. I never want to see Hoosiers again. It includes two things i dont give a crap about: basketball and State basketball tournaments.

Junior high: the Holocaust movie

High School:

Pilgrim's Progress

Junior College:

Catch-22

University:

Henry V

Business College:

Wit

Super Size Me

Oh yes; they made us watch The Pirates of Silicon Valley in grade 11 economics class... and in my grade 11 parenting class in grade 12 they made us watch "Daddy" and also another movie about teenage parents, and also a movie called Nine Months.

When I was in school back in the 60s, they where trying to instill the fear that they have replaced with terrorisim,

The Bomb!

So they would show us young children that film of Nucleur holocaust where you see the little boys eyes melting and the melting, screaming girl holding the fence before the blast shreds the flesh from her skeleton.
The bucket of wedding rings, showing the number of dead.

We did get some really usefull info though on how to survive, you have to take a door off its hinges and lay it against the wall and get behind it for a few weeks untill you gradually die or something.