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I remember seeing Men of Honor in Health like three times

 

October Sky and Gattaca are my favorites. Also for some reason Finding Nemo was the go to movie to show in 8th grade on rainy days and I got so sick of it.

 

I took a film class in high school and we watched Ocean's Twelve for some reason

Like not even the first one

 

They showed Gangs of New York in tenth grade and when she put in the second cassette the very first shot was two naked women in bed, my teacher went old lady crazy and we thought it was hilarious

 

Not previewing videos or movies is something every teacher falls victim to at least once.

 

we saw glory probably every year of high school

 

I love the random movies that teachers of certain subjects go with. History and English teachers have so much to work with but everyone else has to get creative.

We showed Avatar for a few years in our unit about European imperialism. A boring movie, but it fills a whole week.

 

Some movies I remember from high school:

Gandhi
To Kill a mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet (the one from the 60s)

 

On my first day of student teaching, my mentor teacher was out and left a video for the kids with no instructions. A certified sub who was probably a year older than me came in, so it was the two of us in front of a 7th grade class we'd never seen before. The movie was "Hidden in America", the Beau Bridges movie where he and Jena Malone and some kid are homeless. At one point, the boy fucking hangs himself in the shower (he survives) and they show him like struggling and it's pretty disturbing. The class was rightfully freaked the fuck out. When the dude got back, I was basically like "hey man what the fuck" and he said that he usually skips that part and just tells the kids that the kid is stressed out

 

I took several band/choir/music appreciation classes throughout middle school and high school and saw Grease roughly twice a year because of that.

from what I can remember of other classes:
Lorenzo’s Oil
Gandhi
The Great Gatsby (1974)
Romeo & Juliet (1968)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Dr. Strangelove
Amadeus
The Graduate
Silence of the Lambs
Kicking and Screaming (2005, though the substitute for that 7th grade class had told us before that we were watching Monsters Inc, and about 45 minutes into the movie said “this isn’t Monsters Inc”, and ejected it and put in Monsters Inc)
Monsters Inc

 

The only two movies I remember watching in high school are A Christmas Story and The Perfect Storm...

I remember my English teacher made the class read and watch The Great Gatsby as well, but I decided to skip class during that entire section.

 

Why was October Sky in your guys rotation?

 

It was in our rotation as well. Probably saw it 5+ times.

 

Pretty sure we watched all of Gettysburg in however many consecutive 8th grade history classes. Which, I'd already watched at least some of it with my dad at home. What a bizarre movie for me to have genuinely liked as a kid, lol.

Remember watching Romeo + Juliet in high school after reading the play. Was at a Christian school, & the teacher prefaced it thoroughly, but I think we more or less watched it all? Remember getting a kick out of all the goofy sword-brand guns & not having the vocabulary or capacity yet to wrap my head around Mercutio.

 

i can see it tying in to history or astronomy

 

Late to the WWI talk, but All Quiet on the Western Front was always a good one.

 

I saw October Sky at least five times in school.

 

Lorenzo’s Oil?? Fuck.

 

We watched Lorenzo’s Oil in biology class lol

 

I remember watching Romeo + Juliet in high school and being extremely pleasantly surprised to see Paul Rudd

 

Now that Riz Ahmed is a famous actor, I wish more people would go back and see Four Lions, a great comedy about a subject matter that is very hard to thread the needle. It is free on YouTube with ads.

 

It's great

 

That’s been on my list but I’ve never gotten around to it.

 

here's a fan movement i can get behind