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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
“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
