# Movies you watched in school **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325 "2013-10-15T16:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/21 "2013-10-15T18:28:44Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > That reminds me of watching Zeffirelli’s _Romeo and Juliet_ in junior high. The film was split over two VCR tapes, conveniently excising Olivia Hussey’s nude scene. We saw that one, with the nudity intact, junior high as well. It went over like you can imagine. Also the requisite scare-the-shit-out-of-you Driver’s Ed films, like “Blood on the Asphalt.” The only other ones I can remember were from grade school - _The Red Balloon_, and this other one about a boy (Indian boy?) who carves a little guy paddling a canoe out of wood, with “please put me back in the water” on the bottom, and you watch the canoe’s journey. People keep finding it and putting it back, at one point I think someone repainted it, and at the end it shows the canoe making it to the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/22 "2013-10-15T18:31:01Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > I’ll always remember the time my AP Euro teacher spent several minutes talking about an intensely disturbing documentary we were going to watch about the Spanish Inquisition. He offered to let any of us sit out if we didn’t want to watch it. Needless to say, we were on the edge of our seats. > > **It turned out to be the song and dance number from _Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part I._** I didn’t expect that. ETA Should have read upthread first. Great minds and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/23 "2013-10-15T18:31:52Z")
Like **fiddlesticks** , we watched _Romeo & Juliet_. It was after reading the play in junior high English class; I’m sure the nude scene was omitted as well, otherwise it would have been a formative moment of my youth. In the same class, we watched the movie adaptation of \*A Separate Peace \*after reading the book. In my senior year, we watched _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_ on the last day of class. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/24 "2013-10-15T18:33:45Z")
> [@Hermione](#): > > And I bet you didn’t expect that. Not just me! _Nobody_ did! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/25 "2013-10-15T18:35:01Z")
Romeo & Juliet, the one with _swoon_ Olivia Hussey. Little Big Man ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/26 "2013-10-15T18:41:22Z")
I remember seeing The Red Balloon, the John Wayne film The Cowboys and a film version of the Agatha Christie novel Ten Little Indians. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/27 "2013-10-15T18:43:24Z")
I was about to say that I didn’t ever see a fiction film in class. But then I remembered watching _A Tale of Two Cities_ with Ronald Coleman\*. (And that weird Madame Defarge still haunts me.) Apparently they couldn’t afford the Dirk Bogarde version. It was just the usual Bell Labs (makers of _Hemo …_) type stuff. I also remember that Bill Cosby racism documentary. Eye opening. - No, Ronald Coleman wasn’t in the classroom. I mean, …, well, you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/28 "2013-10-15T18:49:12Z")
We saw “Victory At Sea” in grade school. It was a big event that took a couple hours a day for the entire week. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/29 "2013-10-15T18:51:34Z")
I was in a class called Jobs for Bay State Graduates. It was basically a crap class because I couldn’t have two study hall periods my senior year and I didn’t need anything else. We were supposed to learn job skills and stuff like that (things I had already been taught in ROTC). I think my teacher hated the class as much as we did because one day he showed us Happy Gilmore. He said it was a movie about being flexible in your job goals and being able to use your skills to be successful. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/30 "2013-10-15T18:53:57Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > We saw “Victory At Sea” in grade school. It was a big event that took a couple hours a day for the entire week. That reminds me - we also watched the entire miniseries _The Blue and the Gray_ in 7th grade. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/31 "2013-10-15T18:59:05Z")
For some reason, to this day I don’t know why, they made the entire school go to the auditorium (it was a small high school in a little town in Kansas) and showed us Wait Until Dark. Yes, the Audrey Hepburn version. At first everybody laughed because it was old and seemed silly, but by the end everybody was freaking out. Hearing jocks scream like little girls was delightful. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/32 "2013-10-15T19:04:07Z")
_The Red Balloon_ is available on Netflix streaming if any of you need to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/33 "2013-10-15T19:10:27Z")
Another repressed memory. Thanks SDMB! Senior year, in “Law” class we watched _The Rape of Richard Beck_ with Richard Crenna, who learns that rape is wrong by being raped himself. Shudder. Actually we got to watch a bunch of true crime TV movies in that class now that I think about it… the highlight was probably the _Fatal Vision_ miniseries with Gary “Before He was Lumberg” Cole. Lots of class time soaked up there! ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/34 "2013-10-15T19:18:55Z")
We saw no movies during my first 8 years of Catholic school. In high school we saw: [Nanook of the North](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanook_of_the_North) [A Midsummer Night’s Dream](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream_%281968_film%29) [The Trial](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_%281962_film%29) That school was certainly higher-brow than I turned out to be. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/35 "2013-10-15T19:40:39Z")
Lots of overlap with others. The Blue and the Gray–7th grade Ohio history A Tale of Two Cities–9th grade English Romeo and Juliet–9th grade English, nude scene intact. We were given a stern lecture beforehand about how mature we would have to be. The Red Balloon–hated it. Top Gun–9th grade American history, I think Froggy Went a Courtin’ Johnny Appleseed–with some great theme song. I still sing the damned thing Really Rosie–from elementary school. I still sing songs from this one, too. “I’m really Rosie and I’m Rosie real. You better believe me, I’m a great big deal. Beliiiiiiieeeeeeve me!” Paul Bunyan–elementary school Legend of Sleepy Hollow–elementary school Lambert the Sheepish Lion (I think) Mickey and the Beanstalk We must have had access to Disney films, huh? I know there were others. I think I remember the Indian in the canoe movie someone mentioned upthread. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/36 "2013-10-15T19:44:31Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Hemo, The Magnificent.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemo_the_Magnificent) yes, the fantastic Bell Science series. Wonderful. All we had is educational stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/37 "2013-10-15T19:58:37Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Also the requisite scare-the-shit-out-of-you Driver’s Ed films, like “Blood on the Asphalt.” Those are the only ones I really remember. I remember everyone wanted to watch “The Last Prom” really badly and it turned out to be pretty benign compared to all of the others we watched. I remember the teacher telling us that if the blood and gore got too bad, we were to get up quietly and leave the room. If I remember correctly, only one or two did. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/38 "2013-10-15T20:04:31Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I know there were others. I think I remember the Indian in the canoe movie someone mentioned upthread. I think this is Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/39 "2013-10-15T20:05:28Z")
“Thomasina” - A Disney film about a cat Lots of Jiminy Cricket “I’m No Fool” shorts “The Red Balloon” (I remember thinking it was incredibly boring) “Mechanized Death” in high school, back when they used to show those super gory drivers-ed films ---
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