I just finished watch Nuremberg and it raised a question that I want to throw out. Are there movies, books or documentaries that should be required reading of all high school students?
I think Nuremberg and Schindler’s list belong there.
Ken Burns “The Civil War” and The Viet Nam War."
“Mississippi Burning” “To Kill a Mocking Bird”
All of what you said, and I would add “Inherit The Wind”.
1984
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Books/Not in order
Animal Farm
A prayer for Owen Meany
The Way Things Work
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A River Runs Trough It
The Outsiders
All Creatures Great and Small
Lord of the Flies
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Slaughterhouse-Five
Night
Flowers For Algernon
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Hobbit/ The Lord of the Rings
Any Anthology of modern and Classic Poems
Brave New World
Where the Crawdads Sing
Master and Commander
Black Boy
Chesapeake
Hawaii
The Caine mutiny
The Sand Pebbles
Moby Dick
A Confederacy of Dunces
Movies/Documentaries:
Sophie’s Choice
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Roots
A Solder’s Story
Master and Commander (Movie)
Good Will Hunting
Stop Making Sense
Elephant Man
Moonstruck
Young Frankenstein
On The Waterfront
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