# Movies/Shows you watched in school. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046 "2015-12-10T04:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/41 "2015-12-12T01:05:07Z")
The only video I ever saw in school were those educational videos. We didn’t seeTV or theatrical releases. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/42 "2015-12-12T01:51:24Z")
Couldn’t help but notice… > [@CalMeacham](#): > > One time we saw a film during my elementary school years during school hours, but not in the school building. They marched us to the local theater a couple of blocks away to watch **the Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima** (1952). Hey, it was a Catholic school. At least the screen wasn’t washjed out by sunlight. … that if any movie could have parts of it justifiably washed out by sunlight, it would be one on that topic!!! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/43 "2015-12-12T02:07:46Z")
One odd choice was [Bless the Beasts & Children](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068286/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), which ham-handedly tried to tap into the same youthful rebellion as **Billy Jack**. It was about a bunch of maladjusted summer camp boys who made a crusade out of freeing a herd of buffalo from creeps who shot them in a tiny pen. The only notable cast members were Bill Mumy and Bruce Glover. Why my school showed that in the auditorium is a mystery to me. The Carpenters performed the crappy theme song. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/44 "2015-12-12T02:33:58Z")
Ones I remember from elementary school: _Free to Be You and Me_ and [Bicycles Are Beautiful](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx9oWZQ0RhY) with Bill Cosby (who pronounces “bicycle” as “buy cycle”). From high school: We took a field trip to see Mel Gibson’s Hamlet. I think we also saw Zefferelli’s Romeo & Juliet. We also saw [a Disney cartoon on venereal disease](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxYW0Fw63Y)! From university: I took a French class that had a conversation group once a week; in it, we watched _Astérix chez les Bretons_ and the Flintstones episode where Fred and Barney/Arthur went hunting for snorkasaurus (le groignosaur). ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/45 "2015-12-12T02:43:16Z")
I was in high school, and there was an odd “art film” where a still-life of fruits was slowly devoured by animated flies, to the background of Vivaldi’s Concerto for Diverse Instruments with Mandolins in C. The film was dumb and pointless, but that piece of music is my very favorite of all the music I’ve ever ever heard. (This obviously is not the film in question, but it is [the specific piece of music.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehv35TdZV-Q)) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/46 "2015-12-12T03:01:38Z")
When I was in high school, we would watch a lot of movies funded by the Canadian Film Board (I went to an American high school). One in particular I remember was, “Why Man Creates”. It was quite entertaining the first time I saw it, but it was very popular with the teachers, who showed it ad nauseum. It won an Oscar in the short film category, and is on YouTube now. It’s about 24 minutes long. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euh0kEU20V4) ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/47 "2015-12-12T03:35:32Z")
Movies were not a big part of my schooling. I remember one film about Culloden, and some driver’s ed safety shows. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/48 "2015-12-12T03:55:11Z")
In grade school? To Sir, With Love Swiss Family Robinson Mame Godspell The Sound of Music Plus a bunch of Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/49 "2015-12-12T04:46:42Z")
In my high school Latin class, we complained that other classes got to watch cool movies dubbed in their language, such as _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ in Spanish. With her surreal sense of humor, the teacher let us watch _The Three Stooges Meet Hercules_. It was actually pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/50 "2015-12-12T04:48:32Z")
I must have seen this gem over a dozen times in grades 7-12 (all these grades were in the same building). It’s called “Why Man Creates” and must have been the teachers’ favorite flick to show whenever they didn’t feel like teaching. By the way, I never saw a VHS or DVD in grades 1-12: they were all 16 mm movies. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euh0kEU20V4) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/51 "2015-12-12T04:55:21Z")
We saw all the [Tomorrowland](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=421688&highlight=professor+linguistics) films in elementary school. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/52 "2015-12-12T13:24:12Z")
[The Trouble with Angels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Angels_(film)), 4th or 5th grade, a movie about 2 girls in a Catholic school (which is the kind I went to, as well, natch). The nuns (ours not he fictional ones) covered up the scene where they were shopping for bras with a notecard in front of the projector. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/53 "2015-12-12T14:39:44Z")
I don’t remember too many from grade school in the 70’s (no TV’s or VCR’s), mostly the usual educational films, The Red Balloon, a few of the standard hippy-trippy anti-drug films, and [Telezonia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNxJPYP-ajQ). And then there was [The Magic Sneakers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J6e2q_pcjI). I don’t know why the school had a copy of this, or what was even remotely educational about it, but we were always begging to watch it, and were usually refused because the teachers all thought it was pointless and stupid. Sometimes they’d give in just to shut us up, but it was rare. And one time we were bussed to a theater to see [Oliver!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063385/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), and then had to learn all the songs in music class. In HS I remember watching [Cat’s Eye](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088889/?ref_=nv_sr_1) in 10th grade English for some reason, and in 12th grade English we read and watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. ---
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/54 "2015-12-16T04:09:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > A safety PSA about electricity. > Did it feature Reddy Kilowatt? Not that one. The one I saw was in the late '90s, early '00s and was about how either lighting or electricity would ground itself. I distinctly remember a creepy male voice saying GROUNDED. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/55 "2015-12-16T05:48:09Z")
> [@Kimble](#): > > 9-12: the 1964 _Of Human Bondage_ and the 1984 _Nineteen Eighty-Four_, the latter edited to a PG (if not G) rating by our librarian We saw 1984. With glorious bush. Very nice for us adolescent lads. This was at a Catholic school. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/56 "2015-12-16T06:07:47Z")
I remember once we had a free day at school to go get a movie from the video store, and the boys all wanted an action comedy, the girls all wanted some soppy romance thing, and in the end the Teacher vetoed everyone and played [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082077/combined). > [@](#): > > A farmer’s herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046/57 "2015-12-16T06:44:54Z")
> [@blue\_infinity](#): > > We saw 1984. With glorious bush. Very nice for us adolescent lads. This was at a Catholic school. Bush, mmmmmmmmmm! :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-watched-in-school/740046.md?page=2)