# Regular movies in Health Class **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079 "2010-11-18T08:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/21 "2010-11-19T20:59:48Z")
I remember on a rainy day in PE in middle school, we all watched The Making of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/22 "2010-11-20T02:47:18Z")
We never watched any movies in Health that I remember. However, the two days before Christmas break, just as we finished our medieval unit, our Global History teacher aired _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. Changed my 14-year-old life. ---
**Author:** ![DoperChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@DoperChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoperChic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/23 "2010-11-20T17:34:21Z")
Little Miss Sunshine for family dynamics. Rated R, too. All students had to get parent waivers to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Silent\_Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Silent\_Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silent_Kal)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/24 "2010-11-20T17:53:23Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > I went to school in the late 80s, early 90s. Back then in health class we watched a lot of movies with an anti-drug message. Can’t remember the name, but one of them was animated film starring all the Saturday morning cartoon characters from that era (the Muppet Babies, Alf, Garfield, Smurfs, Looney Tunes, etc.). [Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_All-Stars_to_the_Rescue) Sadly, being made in 1990, it came a bit late to include the great 80’s cartoons, like Transformers, G.I. Joe, He-Man, and Thundercats. That would have made for a \*much \*better special. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/25 "2010-11-21T02:24:21Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > We just had slideshows of STDs in various places. The ones on the eyes and inside the mouth were the worst. Actually they’re all bad. ☹ In my 9th grade science class, we watched a nifty cartoon about STDs; I think there was a germ general giving orders to his germ troops about how to infect people. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/26 "2010-11-21T03:14:48Z")
We watched When a Man Loves a Woman in health class. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s about a woman with a drinking problem. Gandhi, and Monty Python were for Social Studies (two separate classes) A Beautiful Mind for Psychology ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/27 "2010-11-21T03:15:31Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > We watched a movie about Karen Carpenter, too. Also a really useless one about an NFL player who has his neck broken, and his recovery. We watched one about an NFL player too! ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/28 "2010-11-21T04:02:17Z")
Dead Poets Society in English class. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/29 "2010-11-21T04:18:31Z")
A biology teacher at my school got in trouble for showing her classes _Species_. ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/30 "2010-11-21T05:32:42Z")
_Lorenzo’s Oil_ in Bio [Sophomore Year] _Evita_ [the non musical with Faye Dunaway] in Spanish. Another Spanish class got to watch _The Lion King_ in Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/31 "2010-11-23T15:39:24Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I too saw the one with Helen Hunt and the drug fire in the gym, although at the time I thought that was an actual after school special rather than a repurposed entertainment film. What do you know, they actually had a clip from this movie on Mental Floss today. In it Helen Hunt, high on PCP jumps out a window. It’s the second clip down: [http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/74938](http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/74938) And by the way, the movie is called “Desperate Lives.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/32 "2010-11-23T15:45:59Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > History class is the only class with ‘re-purposed’ movies that I can think of I take this back…I’ve remembered that we watched Amadeus in music class one year, too. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/33 "2010-11-23T16:25:07Z")
In health class we watched an episode of _Beverly Hills 90210_ dealing with birth control for high schoolers. In French class we watched _Home Alone_ dubbed into French. The best part was how the family was talking French all along, but then when they get to Paris, they ask the hotel operator if he speaks English. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/34 "2010-11-23T16:27:48Z")
_Enough_ with Jennifer Lopez, the great Billy Campbell, and Noah Wyle in a hilarious bad-guy role. Definitely one of the most absurd plots I’ve ever seen in the last 1/4 of the film, but nonetheless a pretty decently entertaining movie. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/35 "2010-11-23T16:51:59Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > A biology teacher at my school got in trouble for showing her classes _Species_. Wow. How could she possibly justify that? Between the ridiculous violence and the copious nudity (not to mention the questionable science), what could a biology class get out of Species? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/36 "2010-11-23T17:00:10Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Wow. How could she possibly justify that? Between the ridiculous violence and the copious nudity (not to mention the questionable science), what could a biology class get out of Species? Anatomy, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/37 "2010-11-24T02:08:34Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Wow. How could she possibly justify that? Between the ridiculous violence and the copious nudity (not to mention the questionable science), what could a biology class get out of Species? Beats me. We were all at a loss to explain it, and I never heard what defense–if any–she offered. At that point, the school district (a small one, but growing very fast) didn’t have any detailed policies about showing videos/movies in class. Now, there are very clear rules about what may be shown in classes and how they must correlate directly with the official curriculum. Teachers must get pre-approval to show any video that is not in our library or part of our streaming video contract. These rules still get broken often, but the teachers can’t plead ignorance now. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/38 "2010-11-24T12:17:02Z")
> [@Renifer](#): > > Another Spanish class got to watch _The Lion King_ in Spanish. spanish was notorious for getting to watch dubbed disney movies in my HS. moot for me since i took latin. ---
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> [@pancakes3](#): > > spanish was notorious for getting to watch dubbed disney movies in my HS. moot for me since i took latin. In the lab for my university French class, we watched “Asterix chez les Bretons” and an episode of “Les Cailloux” (where Fred and Artur a.k.a. Barney go hunting le grognosaurus a.k.a. snorkasaurus). ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079/40 "2010-11-24T17:21:23Z")
History- _JFK_ and the _X Files_ episode about the assassination of JFK- we had to write essays comparing and contrasting with real sources. No, really. _Schindler’s List_, \*Gallipolli \*and _A Town Like Alice_ and a few epsiodes of _Young Indiana Jones_ with Indie in the trenches of WW1 were also shown. French Class- I have vague memories of watching a black and white noir movie involving a canary and a hitman…I think it was [Le Samourai](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/). \*Manon Des Sources \*and _Jean de Florette_ were also shown. Italian class- _La Vita e Bella_ and _La Dolce Vita_. German class- _Run Lola Run_, _Das Boot_ (not all of it). I think basically the teachers put on what they wanted to watch and tried to find a way to justify it for us. No dodgy health films, thank goodness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regular-movies-in-health-class/561079.md?page=3)