I remember on a rainy day in PE in middle school, we all watched The Making of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
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.
Little Miss Sunshine for family dynamics. Rated R, too. All students had to get parent waivers to watch it.
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.
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.
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
We watched one about an NFL player too!
Dead Poets Society in English class.
A biology teacher at my school got in trouble for showing her classes Species.
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.
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
And by the way, the movie is called “Desperate Lives.”
I take this back…I’ve remembered that we watched Amadeus in music class one year, too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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. *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.