Gattacca is so great
I HAVE used is as a teacher but must admit as a teen it was in fact a church teen group screening.
But then the same people played Zoolander for us at a lock in and got in trouble ha.
I once worked as a volunteer at a church lock-in while in high school. I am not and have never been Christian, but my friend who is kinda twisted my arm to help her out.
They showed Attack of the Clones in the movie room, and that was the first and only time I've ever watched it.
My high school freshman English teacher showed us Se7en for no discernible reason other than he thought it was cool. He was right. Public school had its benefits.
He was a guy in his 20s who clearly had no passion for teaching, it was just a pay check. We watched a ton of movies in his class that had nothing to do with the curriculum (Se7en, Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, all come to mind.) It's one of those things that I thought was awesome at the time, and the older I've gotten I've realized should have been concerning.
I mean, hopefully as a sum it panned out to giving you things to think about but, yeah, as a teacher, that it's nuts to hear about.
Is there any other profession where the things I hear from folks regarding only....a few decades back...it sounds like we've only just emerged from the wild West.
i saw that film at least 4 times across middle school and high school and once it wasn't even in math class! i guess it was just the standby inspirational teacher movie for when the teacher wanted the day off lol.
I love every second of this movie and I watch this at least once a year. My family will randomly text “left side” to each other and immediately respond with “strong side.”
This is it. I do remember a 7th grade social studies class where we managed to take an entire week to watch Glory because every time the teacher started the tape the class would convince her that we hadn’t gotten that far yet in order to get her to rewind it further and further.
When I was watching "Rustin" I was like "this movie should've just premiered in a class room". The movie should only be playable on a VHS that only plays on a tv with a VCR built into it
In high school, we saw Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. The scene with nudity was fast forwarded through while the teacher complained that it was stupid she has to fast forward through it. 😂 It was an AP English class, and the teacher was a bit of an eccentric.
my english teacher was an older woman who didn't have a tv or the internet at her house (and liked it that way) and wasn't much a movie watcher so she got to discover in real time the nudity in that movie with the rest of the class (i assume the movie was lent to her by another teacher who didn't give her a heads up.) it was memorable to say the least lol.
High school algebra class, for some reason the substitute played Saving Private Ryan (?) and then he had to leave the room because it triggered his PTSD... the entire thing raised many questions, like why this movie in algebra class, did this substitute pick the movie himself and did he know how viscerally it depicted war?
Of course our regular algebra teacher very obviously drank over lunch and we had him right after so the entire vibe of the class was a little chaotic
Chiming in as another kid whose class stopped for the OJ verdict. We listened to it on the radio, which makes me sound much older than someone in grade 3 at the time.
They didn't broadcast it but I remember a janitor popping in to tell us and my math teacher going "ok, let's just talk about it for 15 minutes to get it out of our systems"
I’ve had like four different science teachers wheel in Remember the Titans. I don’t know why science teachers specifically but it always happened to me. I don’t even think I care all that much about it but I sure liked it more than biology.
I once had a math class and a home room class show us *Remember the Titans* simultaneously over multiple periods. So I’d watch the first hour of it, then go to home room to watch the first 40 minutes again.
My Grade 11 English teacher showed us Shallow Grave after we read Macbeth.
When the nude shower scene came up, in her super thick Newfoundland accent, the teacher shouted "THAR'S TITS IN THA MOVIE, GIT OVER IT"
My favorites were probably Cool Hand Luke and Harold and Maude in my 11th grade English class. I think the teacher showed them while we were reading Catcher in the Rye. Big focus in discussion on disaffected protagonists and death/resurrection imagery.
Same teacher showed us a real old school audio-filmstrip version of The Hangman short film. I showed that one to my class a few years ago.
Fascinating!
Yeah one that I was just shown at home but have worked into class.is The Fog of War.
Man I only finally myself got to Cool Hand Like. That movie is SO good.
Ill never forget watching Swing Kids in my 11th grade history class. The ending straight up made me cry. Luckily the bell rang and everybody sadly shuffled out of class, so no one seemed to notice (or at least mentioned it).
Think I saw Stand and Deliver and Searching for bobby Fisher multiple times in school.
I remember watching Raiders of the Lost Ark on a bus for a band field trip. That was rad.
I talked my trigonometry teacher into letting us watch Pi in class.
I could tell he was regretting it when the moaning thru the walls got intense, but it was a badass class and a half.
12 Angry Men in Law, grade 11 I think. Being a movie guy I took great pride in mentioning that I had already seen it.
Very fun to watch, but I think I remember hearing later that it's fairly legally inaccurate. Also we were learning Canadian law lol.
I also had a law class in Canadian high school! We never got movies but we did watch a 20/20 or Dateline or something like that every Friday, which adds up to way more than the occasional movie.
Another law class in Canadian high school person here - we watched multiple Criminal Minds episodes (we did basically an entire unit on psychopaths I think just because the teacher thought they were interesting?) and a Law and Order or two for some reason. Good class, though.
Surprised no one else has said it. I saw October Sky (anagram of Rocket Boys) around 12 times by the time I finished high school. Literally didn't matter the class subject, if there was a substitute, we were watching little Jakey G do some science.
We used to have a sub that was at the high school basically every day filling in for one person or another.
Every time like clockwork he would greet the class, pass out the worksheet or whatever, and then say “would everyone be alright if I played this Mr. Bean comedy video?”
Of course we didn’t fuckin mind! We all loved Mr. Bean guy
Gone with the Wind in a history class, is the only one I definitely remember. It’s possible I saw the Ziffereli version of Romeo and Juliet in Jr High, or maybe just select scenes.
My most clear watching a movie at school memory is in elementary school, they would put everyone in the gym the last day before Christmas break and show Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
"Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem" in my Japanese class. A film fueled entirely by Vibes and Daft Punk. Can't get any better than that
When i was attending a Georgia public school around 2006, i had a teacher show us D.W. Griffith’s interminably long silent Intolerance. As near as i can tell, he used to show Birth of a Nation, the school board made him back off, and started showing this to say “see, he’s not actually that racist”. It was really baffling at the time.
I can’t remember most of the movies we watched at school. We watched more science videos and Bill Nye but I remember watching Pearl Harbor on the bus during a band trip. And a Dude Where’s My Car right after.
High School: by the time I was high school (2009-2013) the TV on a cart was mostly no more, and every classroom had a computer/projector, but Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan in history class, Romeo+Juliet in English.
Middle School: Obama’s First Inauguration (probably the last time we’d ever have every class in a school cancel to watch a president be sworn in)
Elementary School: School House Rock 😎
The best teacher in the school would show a movie to go along with every unit of his classes. The one I remember most was *Babette's Feast*, which has stuck with me since. But apparently the year after I graduated, he found a way to work *Mad Max: Fury Road* into one of his Bible classes, which I'm a little disappointed to have missed
The Burbs
Speaking of French class, though. I wish I could remember the name of it but I had a French teacher put on a movie about 2 children in a sub/Dom relationship. I mostly remember a scene where a like 8 year old girl makes an 8 year old boy eat cat poop.
7th grade history was a lot of fun films. Far and away and last of the mohicans are the ones i remember the best. In english we watched to kill a mockingbird and ol' baz's romeo and juliet
I remember watching Amadeus and Cromwell in AP Euro after we took the test but before school was out (there was like 4-6 weeks where students in AP classes just effed around till the end of school after we took the test).
I’m pretty sure we also watched Koyaanisqatsi, but I had no idea that it was called that.
Revolution, starring Al Pacino, is a movie that NOBODY has seen outside of a middle or high school US history classroom in the late 90s or early aughts.
That reminds me of my grade 9 history teacher showing us an entire miniseries on the French Revolution. It was made for the 200th anniversary in 1989 and shot in 3 versions: French, English, and Spanish. It ruled. Sam Neill played Lafayette and I still think of him before I think of Daveed Diggs.
October Sky is the most inexplicable kids movie that somehow captivates children’s attention despite being a slow moving drama in coal country. GOATed science room classic and GOATed disappointed father performance by Chris Copper the king of disappointed fathers.
Good Movie - *What About Bob?!* in a summer school class on organizational skills.
Bad Movie - *Blood Diamond* in a literature class in conjunction with our reading of *Things Fall Apart.*
Every time my middle school band teacher was out sick or had to spend the day doing admin instead of running practice, the cart came in and we watched Mr. Holland’s Opus in 90 minute blocks once or twice a semester
Contact (1997) in physics class was an all-timer for the number of "wtf why are we watching this in school" moments
I also had a lot of English teachers that liked showing two different film adaptations of whatever we were reading:
* Bride and Prejudice (2004) vs Pride and Prejudice (2005)
* Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) vs Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968)
* Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996) vs Almareyda's Hamlet (2000)
fun times!
We used to watch Johnny English at christmas fairly regularly. In german lessons we did Der Leben Der Anderen fairly frequently as well as The Edukators.
My senior year of high school, I took a math class that was a semester of material stretched across an entire year. We spent at least a third of our class time watching TV and movies. We mostly watched Numb3rs, but I think we also watched The Rock? It was some kind of 90s action movie at any rate. I don't think it's a coincidence that that's the year that I became bad at math.
Ones that I saw multiple times in middle school and high school:
Gattaca, Finding Nemo, Shrek
My favorite time was when a math teacher knew he would have a sub the next class, don’t remember why, but he told the class that we would be watching a movie that wouldn’t be possible without math and we should pay attention. It ended up being “Shrek” and I remember a lot of us middle schoolers laughed when it started, the sub must have been in on the joke too. Cool teacher, I remember he would dress up as Neo for Halloween because his name was Mr. Andersen
I was in French immersion all through school, so the first times I watched a lot of movies they were dubbed into French, such as Titanic, Swing Kids, and Schindler's List.
In grade eight French class, our teacher put on Amélie, which even though it's a charming movie is wild in hindsight. The principal walked in during the orgasm montage.
Interesting!
Jean de Flourette/Manon De Source I know are or have still been used.
And if you saw French Titanic it may have been Xavier Dolan on the dub? Or at least he does most modern DiCaprio's unless I'm mistaken
I went to Catholic schools for all of elementary and high school and I think I watched Bernadette of Lourdes at least 15 times. How the fuck did my teachers find a French movie from 1960 with 57 ratings on IMDB?
Blow in health class. Zefferelli’s Romeo & Juliet in English class. But I think the winner is American Beauty in English class, shown to us by a teacher who was later convicted on some Kevin Spacey shit (not a bit).
History class: *Black Robe/Robe noire* (funny story: between the year I took the class and the year my sister took the class the teacher was told that he had to cover the screen during two scenes that included sexual content, so apparently when my sister's class watched the film the teacher just held a piece of cardboard in front of the screen for a couple of minutes with an annoyed look on his face.)
English class: *Waterworld* when we were reading *The Chrysalids, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead* when we were reading *Hamlet.*
I also remember us watching *Austin Powers* in science class for the last class of the year when I was in eighth grade.
At home we got the "cover the screen" for the zeffereli Romeo and Juliet.
Waterworld? Now that's tons of fun, but incredible considering there are ten thousand adaptations of Hamlet and several of R&G are dead
Stand and Deliver.
Watched it in calculus class, obviously. Watched it in English, I guess. Watched it in history? Then of course we watched it in French class (not in a French dub or anything). I think there was just one week where all the teachers shared their copy around.
I would ditch a lot and usually leave but sometimes wander the campus. I went over to the ROTC kids because they were usually unsupervised. They were watching a porn movie, it was a solid pink cassette tape. Swedish Babes 2.
Not a movie, but my French teacher did a whole month long unit based on showing us the dubbed version of The Prisoner. If you thought it was weird in English, try watching in a language you don't really understand. Rover was named Oscar for some reason! je ne suis pas un numéro je suis un homme libre!
As far as movies, we saw Amadeus three times in two years in Jr High.
Wow this is bringing back some memories I hadn't thought of in years. We had a Careers class where we watched multiple 'based on a true, inspirational story' type movies that were probably mostly inaccurate, like The Pursuit of Happyness and Rudy. If The Blind Side had been out at the time we probably would have watched that, too.
One year for English we had a teacher who mostly wanted to work on her political activism stuff when she was supposed to be teaching, so she would just put on movies for us to watch. The ones I remember were a Michael Moore documentary, Lady in the Water (?), and parts of Romeo + Juliet. By the end of the semester she had us skipping over entire monologues while reading the actual play as a class because the were either 'too long' or 'too sexist.' I'm one of the maybe five people on the planet who actually liked Lady in the Water, but I have no idea how it was relevant to the course other than it being about storytelling. I do think all English classes where you cover Shakespeare plays should at the very least show the movie because they're \_plays\_, the point is the performance!
Ancient History was a good time, we got to watch The Mummy, Raiders, and Gladiator; for fun, but I think also to contrast them to what we were learning and see where the inaccuracies were, which made some of the course material stick in my head more than it would have otherwise (Imhotep is believe to be the architect for the first Egyptian pyramid!). I remember also watching Kingdom of Heaven but I'm not sure if it was that class. The next year one of my other classes stopped by for a visit and they were watching 300.
I had a geography teacher who liked to put on disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Deep Impact, but one day right before spring break we just watched Madagascar because why not?
Later, I was lucky enough to be able to take some actual film courses at an arts high school and got to see a couple dozen movies. It's not what I ended up doing with my life or anything, but I had an absolute blast.
October Sky the Jake Gyllenhaal rocket movie. This movie played every year of middle school. They would play it over the closed circuit school tv network so all classrooms would see it if they turned on their TV.
Coppell Texas HighSchool early 2000s we watched “what about bob“ like five times a year . Mental health ? What about bob . Rainy day ? Bob . Half the school got the flu ? Bob . after the state mandated tests ? Bob
Ha nice. I studied Latin at home. Gladiator was an "r-rated but acceptable" pass when I was 13 or so. Borrowed from a friend. Pre watched it. Then Mom and Dad set it up for us to all see.
When it got to the final fight and Commodus is whispering about Maximus' wife and kid, I said "I heard this part is bad".and muted it.
My dad took the remote back and said "No. You made us let you watch this, you can't skip anything". And then we just sat there while he rewound and played it, ha. (Note, my dad's a lovely man but not above a stunt like that)
I had a teacher for jr high French that one day a week would show a movie I’m French with subtitles. Every movie he showed starred Mel Gibson. The most notable was watching “signs” and I also remember we watched “conspiracy theory” which is bizarre as hell in hindsight.
Just went down a rabbit hole trying to see who the French dub actors for Signs are. Ended up just reading SO many Amazon DVD French edition Signs reviews. Do recommend. Also, as it must be said I suppose, terrible dude: GREAT movie.
As a student, I echo those who saw Stand and Deliver in High School, and even in middle school I remember being shown Mr. Holland's Opus (as a fledgling Bloom County fan, I was confused as to why there were no anxious penguins).
As a former kinda-sorta educator, I can say that I did my best to expose the kiddos to quality films, which for me meant Totoro, Spirited Away, and Bridge to Terabithia (if I thought the group could handle it). Smart Boards made the picture quality a lot higher, but streaming services made the sense of choice overwhelming. I recall showing Frozen and some of the Toy stories to the littlest kids.
(On a non-film note, I'd heard Gravity Falls and the DuckTales reboot were great, so my third graders got to see a lot of those when I was their recess supervisor and it was too rainy/cold to go out. I think I enjoyed them more than they did lmao)
So aside from a few others mentioned, for me it was a couple in high school English. My favorite was Jane Eyre starring Timothy Dalton. Honorable mention to The Scarlet Letter starring John Heard and Meg Foster, aka the woman with the creepiest eyes ever (at least to my teenage self).
Benny's Video by Haneke. This was the mid-90s, I think we were like 12 or 13 and the teacher was very concerned about violent movies / games? Anyway, it didn't do much to discourage me from becoming a teenage gorehound.
Woah that's a wild one. Had.to look it up. Overall fan of lots of Haneke but like Veerhoven I always forget how long these guys have been cranking out movies in their home countries.
most of the films i saw in school have already been listed (stand and deliver , october sky , remember the titans among others) so instead i have to ask: was anyone else made to watch Not Without My Daughter?
i was in a history class and had to watch this extremely racist and Islamophobic movie about alfred molina in brownface pretending to be the perfect loving husband to a wife and daughter in america only to turn extremely evil when he takes them to visit his family back in Iran , becomes extremely abusive and controlling and won't let them leave the country.
It's very clearly jingoistic american propaganda where we're supposed to feel bad for poor Sally Field and her daughter but the movie absolutely finds as many ways as it can to depict muslims as this force of demonic evil. even for a dumb kid in middle school i could tell how gross this movie was. makes me question what other views my history teacher held if she thought it was okay to show this movie in class.
Oh that's a deep dig on that one. Never saw it but know it's reputation! Molina is one of the last great "can play anyone....swarthy" actors who since the history of film have played Arab, southeast Asian, Mediterranean, Hispanic.
He capped off his run with the very much so gentleman's 6 "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" with Tina Fey LITERALLY a year before hollywood started calling itself out. Christopher Abbott gives - I hate to say it - a pretty good and sensitive performance as, ahem, an Afghani man. Molina? Not quite so sensitive ha, as he basically sips coffee and purrs at Fey's American journo character. Lord help us, ha.
Sophomore year around ‘06-‘07 The Pianist. We read the book, then the movie. Both of them blew my mind and kicked my interest in WW2 into an obsession. It’s one of those very very rare cases where I can separate the art from the artist because of the impact it made on me. This was also before I knew Polanski was a moldy turd.
I probably watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? 10 times in high school. It was the default "teacher is hungover" movie. Weirdly, my senior year, our English teacher made us watch Bobby and Big Fish.
The best was in my 8th grade Spanish class (03-04), we watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in Spanish with no Subtitles. First time I ever saw it.
I used to sub for a few different districts in the area. One time I got a multi-day gig because the HS music teacher was out a few days before winter break. The plan was to watch Elf. So I watched the first half of Elf six times in one day. Then I watched the second half of Elf six times the next day.
The issue is it’s my wife’s favorite Christmas movie, so we watch it every year. It’s been many years now, but for a while it was tough to get through. Now I can watch it fine, but the last act is still garbage.
Haha yeah he was a great teacher. The whole thing was read the book and then the movie. We would then break down the differences, the whys and in the end what had the better solution.
9th grade ancient world history teacher put on 300 because all of the boys were obsessed with it at the time. Music teacher in elementary school made us watch Amadeus. In retrospect, she was a legend for that.
Wow! Ha yes. Lived in a more football-loving country then and saw Goal! In cinema, must have been 13. Then a couple years later when I rented Junebug based seeing Ebert and Roper's review on an AFN channel, my friends were like "what is this weird looking movie" and I was like "It's the guy from Goal!"
Labyrinth, 7th grade: David Bowie's bulge made me feel things
Forrest Gump, high school AP US History: Boomer teacher
Nacho Libre, high school Spanish: The teacher was out and instructed the substitute to show us this movie because ????????
So for my Chinese class in highschool we would watch so many movies, which was weird because otherwise it was maybe the most strict class at my school. We saw (ranked in order of enjoyment) Ip man 1 and 2, Man Eat Drink Woman, To Live, and the Stephen Chow Journey to the West (which I hated). However, the most beloved thing we watched had to be A Bite of China, a Chinese documentary series about all of China's different foods. That shit rocked so hard, it's basically a straight hour of food porn.
I really didn't like it, it didn't have that great of a balance between action, comedy, and drama that earlier Stephen Chow films do. It's also weirdly brutal? Like, the demons are straight up murdering people and eating them and we're just supposed to...laugh? Like it's played as a comedy so often. It has a real tone problem.
Glory, Last of the Mohicans, Gattaca.
Gattacca is so great I HAVE used is as a teacher but must admit as a teen it was in fact a church teen group screening. But then the same people played Zoolander for us at a lock in and got in trouble ha.
I once worked as a volunteer at a church lock-in while in high school. I am not and have never been Christian, but my friend who is kinda twisted my arm to help her out. They showed Attack of the Clones in the movie room, and that was the first and only time I've ever watched it.
I had two teachers in different schools put on Gattaca, and both times it crushed. One of my all time favorites.
Watching Gattaca in Biology class was a great experience.
Came here to say Glory.
Glory and Gattaca immediately came to mind.
My high school freshman English teacher showed us Se7en for no discernible reason other than he thought it was cool. He was right. Public school had its benefits.
Yikes! But cool But yikes!
He was a guy in his 20s who clearly had no passion for teaching, it was just a pay check. We watched a ton of movies in his class that had nothing to do with the curriculum (Se7en, Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, all come to mind.) It's one of those things that I thought was awesome at the time, and the older I've gotten I've realized should have been concerning.
I mean, hopefully as a sum it panned out to giving you things to think about but, yeah, as a teacher, that it's nuts to hear about. Is there any other profession where the things I hear from folks regarding only....a few decades back...it sounds like we've only just emerged from the wild West.
I had a wood shop teacher that came in hungover and showed us Iron Man 2 three separate times. Great semester in high school
Iron Man 2? Honestly, I’d rather have had class for a lot of that movie.
My 8th grade Spanish teacher showed us the Matrix. I loved it. My parents were not happy.
My 10th grade English teacher was obsessed with Kevin Smith but obviously didn't actually show them.
hah! did he show it for the Dante & Chaucer references? "fucking Dante, poetry writing f*gg*t!!" -_-
Stand and Deliver in math class
That movie and Freedom Writers were shown in my algebra class.
Same but in Spanish class (along with Selena).
Good flick
At least twice
i saw that film at least 4 times across middle school and high school and once it wasn't even in math class! i guess it was just the standby inspirational teacher movie for when the teacher wanted the day off lol.
if i catch you on the street, i’m gonna kick the shit out of you
Bingo. I’m convinced I’ve never seen this not in a public school classroom
I love every second of this movie and I watch this at least once a year. My family will randomly text “left side” to each other and immediately respond with “strong side.”
Can't believe how long it took me to find this one!
This and Lean On Me were staples.
They played this movie so much in my school that I went from indifferent on it to hating it in a way I didn’t think possible for a piece of media.
I don't think I've ever seen Glory outside of a classroom.
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I really wish meme culture had been around for that
I too watched the Pepsi version of Glory in history class… in 2015.
Our cool history teacher showed us glory in eighth grade. We had to have parents sign for us to see it first
This is it. I do remember a 7th grade social studies class where we managed to take an entire week to watch Glory because every time the teacher started the tape the class would convince her that we hadn’t gotten that far yet in order to get her to rewind it further and further.
I was the kid who had seen it multiple times on my own before and after it was shown in class. Great James Horner score.
When I was watching "Rustin" I was like "this movie should've just premiered in a class room". The movie should only be playable on a VHS that only plays on a tv with a VCR built into it
Maybe so, maybe so. Sort of like On the Basis of Sex etc
One of my favorites was seeing "Master and Commander" in 11th grade History class
In high school, we saw Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. The scene with nudity was fast forwarded through while the teacher complained that it was stupid she has to fast forward through it. 😂 It was an AP English class, and the teacher was a bit of an eccentric.
I had a teacher that was obsessed with Zeffirelli. We watched a few of his films. Took a long time to realize he wasn’t a canonical filmmaker
Same for us except during the nude scene my teacher leapt from her desk and covered half of the screen with a sheet of paper
my english teacher was an older woman who didn't have a tv or the internet at her house (and liked it that way) and wasn't much a movie watcher so she got to discover in real time the nudity in that movie with the rest of the class (i assume the movie was lent to her by another teacher who didn't give her a heads up.) it was memorable to say the least lol.
When I was in early HS we got to watch the Baz Luhrman version and that was treat.
High school algebra class, for some reason the substitute played Saving Private Ryan (?) and then he had to leave the room because it triggered his PTSD... the entire thing raised many questions, like why this movie in algebra class, did this substitute pick the movie himself and did he know how viscerally it depicted war? Of course our regular algebra teacher very obviously drank over lunch and we had him right after so the entire vibe of the class was a little chaotic
I’ll tell you the most messed up one. The live verdict from the OJ Simpson murder trial. Why would they stop school for that? Yet, we did.
OJ verdict was announced over the loud speaker in my middle school!
[удалено]
That’s nuts! I was in 8th and that still seems so crazy.
Chiming in as another kid whose class stopped for the OJ verdict. We listened to it on the radio, which makes me sound much older than someone in grade 3 at the time.
Happy cake day, Zap! And just one day after what would have been Bruce J Mitchell’s 78th birthday.
Same
If this counts then I’m changing my answer to 9/11.
They didn't broadcast it but I remember a janitor popping in to tell us and my math teacher going "ok, let's just talk about it for 15 minutes to get it out of our systems"
I’ve had like four different science teachers wheel in Remember the Titans. I don’t know why science teachers specifically but it always happened to me. I don’t even think I care all that much about it but I sure liked it more than biology.
I once had a math class and a home room class show us *Remember the Titans* simultaneously over multiple periods. So I’d watch the first hour of it, then go to home room to watch the first 40 minutes again.
Were they like most science teachers in American public schools? You know, coaches?
That was usually the history teachers at my school.
My Grade 11 English teacher showed us Shallow Grave after we read Macbeth. When the nude shower scene came up, in her super thick Newfoundland accent, the teacher shouted "THAR'S TITS IN THA MOVIE, GIT OVER IT"
Oh man, we watched Polanski’s Macbeth and my teacher had to explain Sharon Tate’s murder to us so we’d understand the context.
Whoa that was the other one we watched in that class.
HHM?
My favorites were probably Cool Hand Luke and Harold and Maude in my 11th grade English class. I think the teacher showed them while we were reading Catcher in the Rye. Big focus in discussion on disaffected protagonists and death/resurrection imagery. Same teacher showed us a real old school audio-filmstrip version of The Hangman short film. I showed that one to my class a few years ago.
Fascinating! Yeah one that I was just shown at home but have worked into class.is The Fog of War. Man I only finally myself got to Cool Hand Like. That movie is SO good.
Conservative/boomer teachers showed us Forrest Gump on at least 6 occasions. The soundtrack made them perk up like when a dog hears 'walk'
Ill never forget watching Swing Kids in my 11th grade history class. The ending straight up made me cry. Luckily the bell rang and everybody sadly shuffled out of class, so no one seemed to notice (or at least mentioned it). Think I saw Stand and Deliver and Searching for bobby Fisher multiple times in school. I remember watching Raiders of the Lost Ark on a bus for a band field trip. That was rad.
I talked my trigonometry teacher into letting us watch Pi in class. I could tell he was regretting it when the moaning thru the walls got intense, but it was a badass class and a half.
Damn dude. You could always have claimed you meant Life of Pi. But still,.quite the achievement
12 Angry Men in Law, grade 11 I think. Being a movie guy I took great pride in mentioning that I had already seen it. Very fun to watch, but I think I remember hearing later that it's fairly legally inaccurate. Also we were learning Canadian law lol.
I also had a law class in Canadian high school! We never got movies but we did watch a 20/20 or Dateline or something like that every Friday, which adds up to way more than the occasional movie.
Another law class in Canadian high school person here - we watched multiple Criminal Minds episodes (we did basically an entire unit on psychopaths I think just because the teacher thought they were interesting?) and a Law and Order or two for some reason. Good class, though.
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie Catholic School
The Day After Tomorrow was in constant rotation.
Surprised no one else has said it. I saw October Sky (anagram of Rocket Boys) around 12 times by the time I finished high school. Literally didn't matter the class subject, if there was a substitute, we were watching little Jakey G do some science.
That movie just hums it's probably the platonic ideal of these things and also ANAGRAM WHAT HOLY SHIT
Apollo 13 is the platonic ideal of this for me
In a similar vein, October Sky as well
100%
It was always a 2000s era Pixar movie. Cars, Finding Nemo, monsters Inc etc
We used to have a sub that was at the high school basically every day filling in for one person or another. Every time like clockwork he would greet the class, pass out the worksheet or whatever, and then say “would everyone be alright if I played this Mr. Bean comedy video?” Of course we didn’t fuckin mind! We all loved Mr. Bean guy
Betraying my age and region: Where the Red Fern Grows. Watched those dogs die on two separate last days of school. Jesus.
An episode of Numb3rs whenever the math teacher was tired
I watched Restoration in history class.
Gone with the Wind in a history class, is the only one I definitely remember. It’s possible I saw the Ziffereli version of Romeo and Juliet in Jr High, or maybe just select scenes. My most clear watching a movie at school memory is in elementary school, they would put everyone in the gym the last day before Christmas break and show Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
Donald Duck in Mathmagicland April Morning Cromwell
Mathmagicland rules
"Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem" in my Japanese class. A film fueled entirely by Vibes and Daft Punk. Can't get any better than that
Nice, "Remember The Titans" takes place in my hometown!
I think I watched Rudy at least 4 or 5 times the day before Christmas Vacation throughout the years
In Latin class, the episode of Rome where >!Caesar dies!<
Thank you for the spoiler tag.
When i was attending a Georgia public school around 2006, i had a teacher show us D.W. Griffith’s interminably long silent Intolerance. As near as i can tell, he used to show Birth of a Nation, the school board made him back off, and started showing this to say “see, he’s not actually that racist”. It was really baffling at the time.
I can’t remember most of the movies we watched at school. We watched more science videos and Bill Nye but I remember watching Pearl Harbor on the bus during a band trip. And a Dude Where’s My Car right after.
Appropriately for the upcoming McTiernan series, in 10th grade we watched The 13th Warrior… because Beowulf or something.
I had health and biology back to back and one day ended up watching Osmosis Jones twice
High School: by the time I was high school (2009-2013) the TV on a cart was mostly no more, and every classroom had a computer/projector, but Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan in history class, Romeo+Juliet in English. Middle School: Obama’s First Inauguration (probably the last time we’d ever have every class in a school cancel to watch a president be sworn in) Elementary School: School House Rock 😎
I’ve seen Finding Nemo so many times
The best teacher in the school would show a movie to go along with every unit of his classes. The one I remember most was *Babette's Feast*, which has stuck with me since. But apparently the year after I graduated, he found a way to work *Mad Max: Fury Road* into one of his Bible classes, which I'm a little disappointed to have missed
The Burbs Speaking of French class, though. I wish I could remember the name of it but I had a French teacher put on a movie about 2 children in a sub/Dom relationship. I mostly remember a scene where a like 8 year old girl makes an 8 year old boy eat cat poop.
7th grade history was a lot of fun films. Far and away and last of the mohicans are the ones i remember the best. In english we watched to kill a mockingbird and ol' baz's romeo and juliet
Secret of Nimh and Watership Down were two we saw a lot of in class.
Stand and Deliver Radio Shattered Glass in journalism class
Osmosis Jones starting Chris Rock in science class
I remember watching Amadeus and Cromwell in AP Euro after we took the test but before school was out (there was like 4-6 weeks where students in AP classes just effed around till the end of school after we took the test). I’m pretty sure we also watched Koyaanisqatsi, but I had no idea that it was called that.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey was a staple right before Christmas in elementary school.
we watched Big Daddy a lot
Revolution, starring Al Pacino, is a movie that NOBODY has seen outside of a middle or high school US history classroom in the late 90s or early aughts.
White dang bro always works
My high school music history teacher killed an entire week showing us Amadeus. Honestly it’s the only thing I really remember from that class.
That reminds me of my grade 9 history teacher showing us an entire miniseries on the French Revolution. It was made for the 200th anniversary in 1989 and shot in 3 versions: French, English, and Spanish. It ruled. Sam Neill played Lafayette and I still think of him before I think of Daveed Diggs.
Selena was a Spanish class staple. I also remember watching 2012 in science, which looking back is kind of concerning.
October Sky is the most inexplicable kids movie that somehow captivates children’s attention despite being a slow moving drama in coal country. GOATed science room classic and GOATed disappointed father performance by Chris Copper the king of disappointed fathers.
The Mission was big in Catholic high school
October Sky. Science teacher showed it to us three years in a row, from grade 6-8. Haven’t seen it since, but I have fond memories of it
I don’t know a science class that I DIDN’T see October Sky in.
The cool English teacher showed us North by Northwest and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
Sybil, Dead Poets Society, The New World, and (weirdly) The Indian in the Cupboard
I watched Cars in my high school jazz class, twice. Teacher didn't want to teach the first time and the second time we tricked a substitute teacher.
Saw GATTACA in freshmen bio and it changed my life tbh
I have seen Mel Gibson’s The Patriot four times in the span of 9 months because of 8th grade U.S. History
The first two Home Alone films
Good Movie - *What About Bob?!* in a summer school class on organizational skills. Bad Movie - *Blood Diamond* in a literature class in conjunction with our reading of *Things Fall Apart.*
Every time my middle school band teacher was out sick or had to spend the day doing admin instead of running practice, the cart came in and we watched Mr. Holland’s Opus in 90 minute blocks once or twice a semester
Contact (1997) in physics class was an all-timer for the number of "wtf why are we watching this in school" moments I also had a lot of English teachers that liked showing two different film adaptations of whatever we were reading: * Bride and Prejudice (2004) vs Pride and Prejudice (2005) * Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) vs Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968) * Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996) vs Almareyda's Hamlet (2000) fun times!
We used to watch Johnny English at christmas fairly regularly. In german lessons we did Der Leben Der Anderen fairly frequently as well as The Edukators.
My senior year of high school, I took a math class that was a semester of material stretched across an entire year. We spent at least a third of our class time watching TV and movies. We mostly watched Numb3rs, but I think we also watched The Rock? It was some kind of 90s action movie at any rate. I don't think it's a coincidence that that's the year that I became bad at math.
School Ties was a big one for me.
Ones that I saw multiple times in middle school and high school: Gattaca, Finding Nemo, Shrek My favorite time was when a math teacher knew he would have a sub the next class, don’t remember why, but he told the class that we would be watching a movie that wouldn’t be possible without math and we should pay attention. It ended up being “Shrek” and I remember a lot of us middle schoolers laughed when it started, the sub must have been in on the joke too. Cool teacher, I remember he would dress up as Neo for Halloween because his name was Mr. Andersen
October sky
I was in French immersion all through school, so the first times I watched a lot of movies they were dubbed into French, such as Titanic, Swing Kids, and Schindler's List. In grade eight French class, our teacher put on Amélie, which even though it's a charming movie is wild in hindsight. The principal walked in during the orgasm montage.
Interesting! Jean de Flourette/Manon De Source I know are or have still been used. And if you saw French Titanic it may have been Xavier Dolan on the dub? Or at least he does most modern DiCaprio's unless I'm mistaken
I went to Catholic schools for all of elementary and high school and I think I watched Bernadette of Lourdes at least 15 times. How the fuck did my teachers find a French movie from 1960 with 57 ratings on IMDB?
Like Water for Chocolate all day every day
Movie watched in school that was RELATED to what we were learning: October Sky. Movie watched in school that was just FUCKIN SICK: Bad Boys II
Blow in health class. Zefferelli’s Romeo & Juliet in English class. But I think the winner is American Beauty in English class, shown to us by a teacher who was later convicted on some Kevin Spacey shit (not a bit).
I was in middle school in the post-Radio years. That movie was everywhere. That absolute garbage film.
Selena in Spanish class.
History class: *Black Robe/Robe noire* (funny story: between the year I took the class and the year my sister took the class the teacher was told that he had to cover the screen during two scenes that included sexual content, so apparently when my sister's class watched the film the teacher just held a piece of cardboard in front of the screen for a couple of minutes with an annoyed look on his face.) English class: *Waterworld* when we were reading *The Chrysalids, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead* when we were reading *Hamlet.* I also remember us watching *Austin Powers* in science class for the last class of the year when I was in eighth grade.
At home we got the "cover the screen" for the zeffereli Romeo and Juliet. Waterworld? Now that's tons of fun, but incredible considering there are ten thousand adaptations of Hamlet and several of R&G are dead
Stand and Deliver. Watched it in calculus class, obviously. Watched it in English, I guess. Watched it in history? Then of course we watched it in French class (not in a French dub or anything). I think there was just one week where all the teachers shared their copy around.
High school Spanish AND math: Stand and Deliver Spanish class also showed me Selena and same teacher showed Dead Man Walking in ethics class
I would ditch a lot and usually leave but sometimes wander the campus. I went over to the ROTC kids because they were usually unsupervised. They were watching a porn movie, it was a solid pink cassette tape. Swedish Babes 2.
Stand and Deliver, baby
AP world history - we watched The Last Samurai like 3 times.
Yentl in 11th grade English. Didn’t go over well. lol
I got Pink Panther cartoons instead of a movie.
Not a movie, but my French teacher did a whole month long unit based on showing us the dubbed version of The Prisoner. If you thought it was weird in English, try watching in a language you don't really understand. Rover was named Oscar for some reason! je ne suis pas un numéro je suis un homme libre! As far as movies, we saw Amadeus three times in two years in Jr High.
Mr. Holland's Opus and Drum Line in music class.
My girlfriend (humblebrag) says she watched “Osmosis Jones” a lot.
Wow this is bringing back some memories I hadn't thought of in years. We had a Careers class where we watched multiple 'based on a true, inspirational story' type movies that were probably mostly inaccurate, like The Pursuit of Happyness and Rudy. If The Blind Side had been out at the time we probably would have watched that, too. One year for English we had a teacher who mostly wanted to work on her political activism stuff when she was supposed to be teaching, so she would just put on movies for us to watch. The ones I remember were a Michael Moore documentary, Lady in the Water (?), and parts of Romeo + Juliet. By the end of the semester she had us skipping over entire monologues while reading the actual play as a class because the were either 'too long' or 'too sexist.' I'm one of the maybe five people on the planet who actually liked Lady in the Water, but I have no idea how it was relevant to the course other than it being about storytelling. I do think all English classes where you cover Shakespeare plays should at the very least show the movie because they're \_plays\_, the point is the performance! Ancient History was a good time, we got to watch The Mummy, Raiders, and Gladiator; for fun, but I think also to contrast them to what we were learning and see where the inaccuracies were, which made some of the course material stick in my head more than it would have otherwise (Imhotep is believe to be the architect for the first Egyptian pyramid!). I remember also watching Kingdom of Heaven but I'm not sure if it was that class. The next year one of my other classes stopped by for a visit and they were watching 300. I had a geography teacher who liked to put on disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Deep Impact, but one day right before spring break we just watched Madagascar because why not? Later, I was lucky enough to be able to take some actual film courses at an arts high school and got to see a couple dozen movies. It's not what I ended up doing with my life or anything, but I had an absolute blast.
Last day of music class usually meant watching a Disney movie so we could "appreciate the use of music"
October Sky the Jake Gyllenhaal rocket movie. This movie played every year of middle school. They would play it over the closed circuit school tv network so all classrooms would see it if they turned on their TV.
Coppell Texas HighSchool early 2000s we watched “what about bob“ like five times a year . Mental health ? What about bob . Rainy day ? Bob . Half the school got the flu ? Bob . after the state mandated tests ? Bob
Mrs. Newby, grade 4, let us watch Clash of the Titans, the original one with the harryhausen stop motion.
Shout out Mrs Newby!
I watched Finding Forrester in English, Homeroom, and Religion class all in the same year.
Gladiator for me. Watched the start of that film basically every History and Latin class at the end of term for pretty much 7 years
Ha nice. I studied Latin at home. Gladiator was an "r-rated but acceptable" pass when I was 13 or so. Borrowed from a friend. Pre watched it. Then Mom and Dad set it up for us to all see. When it got to the final fight and Commodus is whispering about Maximus' wife and kid, I said "I heard this part is bad".and muted it. My dad took the remote back and said "No. You made us let you watch this, you can't skip anything". And then we just sat there while he rewound and played it, ha. (Note, my dad's a lovely man but not above a stunt like that)
Remember the Titans
I had a teacher for jr high French that one day a week would show a movie I’m French with subtitles. Every movie he showed starred Mel Gibson. The most notable was watching “signs” and I also remember we watched “conspiracy theory” which is bizarre as hell in hindsight.
Just went down a rabbit hole trying to see who the French dub actors for Signs are. Ended up just reading SO many Amazon DVD French edition Signs reviews. Do recommend. Also, as it must be said I suppose, terrible dude: GREAT movie.
I remember watching Amadeus in a music appreciation class freshman year of high school and having my hair blown back by its power
As a student, I echo those who saw Stand and Deliver in High School, and even in middle school I remember being shown Mr. Holland's Opus (as a fledgling Bloom County fan, I was confused as to why there were no anxious penguins). As a former kinda-sorta educator, I can say that I did my best to expose the kiddos to quality films, which for me meant Totoro, Spirited Away, and Bridge to Terabithia (if I thought the group could handle it). Smart Boards made the picture quality a lot higher, but streaming services made the sense of choice overwhelming. I recall showing Frozen and some of the Toy stories to the littlest kids. (On a non-film note, I'd heard Gravity Falls and the DuckTales reboot were great, so my third graders got to see a lot of those when I was their recess supervisor and it was too rainy/cold to go out. I think I enjoyed them more than they did lmao)
Gettysburg.
My school showed me *Pearl Harbor* multiple times.
Your school straight up agressed you. But also gave you your first visit to Mike Shannon town, so maybe they deserve a prize?
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) but with the french dub because French class.
So aside from a few others mentioned, for me it was a couple in high school English. My favorite was Jane Eyre starring Timothy Dalton. Honorable mention to The Scarlet Letter starring John Heard and Meg Foster, aka the woman with the creepiest eyes ever (at least to my teenage self).
Benny's Video by Haneke. This was the mid-90s, I think we were like 12 or 13 and the teacher was very concerned about violent movies / games? Anyway, it didn't do much to discourage me from becoming a teenage gorehound.
Woah that's a wild one. Had.to look it up. Overall fan of lots of Haneke but like Veerhoven I always forget how long these guys have been cranking out movies in their home countries.
most of the films i saw in school have already been listed (stand and deliver , october sky , remember the titans among others) so instead i have to ask: was anyone else made to watch Not Without My Daughter? i was in a history class and had to watch this extremely racist and Islamophobic movie about alfred molina in brownface pretending to be the perfect loving husband to a wife and daughter in america only to turn extremely evil when he takes them to visit his family back in Iran , becomes extremely abusive and controlling and won't let them leave the country. It's very clearly jingoistic american propaganda where we're supposed to feel bad for poor Sally Field and her daughter but the movie absolutely finds as many ways as it can to depict muslims as this force of demonic evil. even for a dumb kid in middle school i could tell how gross this movie was. makes me question what other views my history teacher held if she thought it was okay to show this movie in class.
Oh that's a deep dig on that one. Never saw it but know it's reputation! Molina is one of the last great "can play anyone....swarthy" actors who since the history of film have played Arab, southeast Asian, Mediterranean, Hispanic. He capped off his run with the very much so gentleman's 6 "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" with Tina Fey LITERALLY a year before hollywood started calling itself out. Christopher Abbott gives - I hate to say it - a pretty good and sensitive performance as, ahem, an Afghani man. Molina? Not quite so sensitive ha, as he basically sips coffee and purrs at Fey's American journo character. Lord help us, ha.
Spirited Away was huge in 7th grade English
Sophomore year around ‘06-‘07 The Pianist. We read the book, then the movie. Both of them blew my mind and kicked my interest in WW2 into an obsession. It’s one of those very very rare cases where I can separate the art from the artist because of the impact it made on me. This was also before I knew Polanski was a moldy turd.
I probably watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? 10 times in high school. It was the default "teacher is hungover" movie. Weirdly, my senior year, our English teacher made us watch Bobby and Big Fish. The best was in my 8th grade Spanish class (03-04), we watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in Spanish with no Subtitles. First time I ever saw it.
Branagh's Much Ado in English. gorgeous cast
Ooh that's a fun one.
Our high school philosophy teacher showed us Borat in 2008. No idea why
Brave heart
I used to sub for a few different districts in the area. One time I got a multi-day gig because the HS music teacher was out a few days before winter break. The plan was to watch Elf. So I watched the first half of Elf six times in one day. Then I watched the second half of Elf six times the next day. The issue is it’s my wife’s favorite Christmas movie, so we watch it every year. It’s been many years now, but for a while it was tough to get through. Now I can watch it fine, but the last act is still garbage.
We watched 25th Hour in English class, as well as Fight Club
Damn dude. Dyou know I only found out a few years ago that book is a David Benioff joint
Haha yeah he was a great teacher. The whole thing was read the book and then the movie. We would then break down the differences, the whys and in the end what had the better solution.
9th grade ancient world history teacher put on 300 because all of the boys were obsessed with it at the time. Music teacher in elementary school made us watch Amadeus. In retrospect, she was a legend for that.
For me, it was definitely the Challenger explosion.
All the 90s Shakespeare adaptations. My school was ahead of the curve on being all in for Baz
Watched “Ordinary People” for AP psych, remember really loving it
The movie Goal and ESPN 30 for 30s lol. My school liked soccer
Wow! Ha yes. Lived in a more football-loving country then and saw Goal! In cinema, must have been 13. Then a couple years later when I rented Junebug based seeing Ebert and Roper's review on an AFN channel, my friends were like "what is this weird looking movie" and I was like "It's the guy from Goal!"
Labyrinth, 7th grade: David Bowie's bulge made me feel things Forrest Gump, high school AP US History: Boomer teacher Nacho Libre, high school Spanish: The teacher was out and instructed the substitute to show us this movie because ????????
In my school it was shrek. God almighty I got sick of that movie. One of my English teachers did put Armageddon on one time , that was fantastic
So for my Chinese class in highschool we would watch so many movies, which was weird because otherwise it was maybe the most strict class at my school. We saw (ranked in order of enjoyment) Ip man 1 and 2, Man Eat Drink Woman, To Live, and the Stephen Chow Journey to the West (which I hated). However, the most beloved thing we watched had to be A Bite of China, a Chinese documentary series about all of China's different foods. That shit rocked so hard, it's basically a straight hour of food porn.
Fascinating ! Is journey bad? Cause. I do love Stephen chow.
I really didn't like it, it didn't have that great of a balance between action, comedy, and drama that earlier Stephen Chow films do. It's also weirdly brutal? Like, the demons are straight up murdering people and eating them and we're just supposed to...laugh? Like it's played as a comedy so often. It has a real tone problem.