We also watched Babies, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, and Wordplay. We liked all of those and thought they were worth the time.
Stacey, I would be so, so interested in your charter school experience. There aren't charter schools where we live for elementary, but there is a math and science charter school for junior high that's opening. If there were a waiting list, even so early in the game, we'd be on it.
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OK, here's a few of my favorite historical films:
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Debating Our Destiny (available on PBS.org -- if you can find part I and II, they are both great)
American Experience: Battle of the Bulge
Lots of other American Experience episodes -- they put quite a few of them online, too
So Goes the Nation
Dear America: Letters from Vietnam
Eyes on the Prize (entire series is great - I often play the Boston busing episode for students and they are *shocked* to realize it is relatively recent history and in their own hometown)
Paper Clips
The Endurance
The Weather Underground (*warning on this one - there's a scene in the middle I had to skip past, but overall I thought it was fascinating to see the selfish conceit that transformed a group from being concerned citizens to domestic terrorists)
PBS puts a lot of their films online or on Google Video -- I've seen some great Frontline documentaries, or historical bits like "Empires: Martin Luther," on time periods or people that are interesting
These are films that *I* like, and some of them are great with my students, too. But there's a whole other list of great classroom films -- like the Shi Huangdi film that has 9th grade boys on the edge of their seats AND recalling facts for weeks afterward. THAT is invaluable!
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