WWII Movie Assignment

 

1.     Please choose a movie you have never seen before.  Good places to find some of these movies:  neighbors, Blockbuster, Net Flix, or Ela Library.  You may choose a movie not on the list below as long as your parents approve it and it is clearly set in WWII.

2.    You must watch one movie at home. 

3.    Create “admission tickets” for distribution at the trade show.  Each student will receive a “ticket.”  The ticket should be small, and contain four pieces of information:

a.     Name of movie

b.    MPAA Rating of movie

c.     Who should watch this movie

d.    Who should not watch this movie

4.    Disclaimer:  Check with your parent before you watch a movie.  Some of these movies are rated R for their war violence.  You do NOT have to watch a movie rated R, there are choices rated G, PG or PG-13.

 


Movie Suggestions

Swing Kids

Sound of Music

Life is Beautiful

Jakob the Liar

The Pianist

U571

The Couple

Flags of our Fathers

Memphis Belle

Tea with Mussolini

Saving Private Ryan

WindTalkers

Schindler’s List

The Thin Red Line

Enigma

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Battle of the Bulge

Band of Brothers

Patton

Empire of the Sun

The Enemy Below

Casablanca

Enemy at the Gates

The Great Escape

The Longest Day

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Midway

The Guns of Navarone

The Last Emperor

The Tuskegee Airmen

Sands of Iwo Jima

Devil’s Arithmetic

Pearl Harbor