Best Suggested Book/Video List For Writing Book Reports and Analysis
Best Suggested Book/Video List For Writing Book Reports and Analysis
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Historic/Classic:
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
Oliver!, or any book/movie/series by Charles Dickens
Pride & Prejudice, or any book/film by Jane Austen
Poldark (BBC Series)
Downton Abbey (BBC Series)
Crimson Field (BBC Series)
Indian Summer (BBC Series)
Gandhi
To Kill a Mockingbird
Great Gatsby
South Bronx
Gone with the Wind
Man in the Iron Mask
Ben Hur
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Chinese, 2011)
Hostiles (2018), (Christian Bale, Wes Studi)
Last of the Mohicans (1992), (Daniel Day-Lewis)
12 Strong (2018), (Chris Hemsworth)
Tuskegee Airmen (1995); Red Tails (2012);
Men of Honor (2000)
Glory (1989)
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Forest Whitaker)
The Help
Hidden Figures
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) (WWII)
Popular/Issues:
Colors, (Robert Duvall)
Billy Jack
The Outsiders
Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Mean Girls
The Departed
Roadhouse, (Patrick Swayze)
Good Will Hunting (1998), (Matt Damon)
Deliverance
Article 99 (1992), (Kiefer Sutherland, Ray Liotta), (VA/Medical issues)
Boyz in the Hood (1991)
F.I.S.T. (1978, Union struggles; Sly Stallone)
The Lords Of Flatbush (Sly Stallone)
Green Book (2018)
Widows (2018)
Sci-Fi/Fantasy:
Repo Man (Jude Law)
Gattaca (Jude Law, Ethan Hawk, Uma Thurman)
V for Vendetta
Hardwired (Cuba Gooding, Jr.)
Harry Potter (any of the series)
Soylent Green (Charlton Heston)
Automata (Antonio Banderas)
Alien Nation (James Caan)
Blade Runner (Harrison Ford)
Hunger Games
Dune
Divergent
I, Robot
Mad Max: Fury Road (Charlize Theron)
Escape from NY/Escape from LA (Kurt Russell)
Demolition Man (Sly Stallone)
City of Embers
Star Wars (any of the film series)
Princess Bride
Animal Farm
10,000 BC (2008)
Pleasantville
Beautiful Creatures
Get Out (2016)
Planet of the Apes (any version of the film/TV series)
Timeless
The Island (2005), (Ewan McGregor)
Elysium (2013), (Matt Damon)
Downsizing (2017), (Matt Damon)
Superman (any version)
Black Panther (2018)
X-Men, (Any of the series)
Warm Bodies (Romeo & Juliet zombies)
The Cure (zombie cure)
Maggie (2015), (Arnold Schwarzenegger, zombie quarantine)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), (Tim Burton film)
Robin Hood (2018)
Last Knights (2015), (Clive Owens, Morgan Freeman)
Sports/Activities Films:
Varsity Blues
Remember the Titans
The Great Debators
The Blind Side
Longest Yard (Adam Sandler)
Gridiron Gang
Hardball (2001)
Coach Carter (2005)
Glory Road (2006) (Basketball)
Radio (2003), (Cuba Gooding, Jr.; Ed Harris)
Friday Night Lights (Film, 2004)
Benchwarmers (2006)
Pele: Birth of a Legend
Goal! – The Dream Begins (Goal II/Goal III)
Miracle Match
Paradise Alley (Sly Stallone)
McFarland, USA (Not Available this semester)
Spare Parts (Not Available this semester)
Musicals:
West Side Story
Step Up (dance films)
Dirty Dancing
Fame
Flashdance
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Les Miserables
Grease
Comedy:
My Cousin Vinny
Trading Places (1983), (Eddie Murphy)
Overboard, (Goldie Hawn)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Legally Blonde
Twins, (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Blazing Saddles, (Mel Brooks)
Casi Casi (Puerto Rico HS election)
Foreign Films:
Gender Issues:
G.I. Jane
She’s The Man
Gracie (Elizabeth Shue)
Whale Rider
Alien/Aliens, Sigourney Weaver
Fargo, (Wm. H. Macy)
Mulan: The Rise of a Warrior (Not animated) (Chinese, 2009)
What a Woman Wants, (Mel Gibson)
Mrs. Doubtfire, (Robin Williams)
Tootsie, (Dustin Hoffman)
Erin Brockovich, (Julia Roberts)
Junior, (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Amelia (2009), (Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, aviatrix)
Love, Simon (2018)
Victor/Victoria (Julie Andrews)
Immigration/Diversity Issues:
Pelle the Conqueror, (1987)
Coming to America, (Eddie Murphy)
A Walk in the Clouds (Keanu Reeves)
Under the Same Moon (based on Enrique’s Journey)
Sabrina
Crash
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (Poitier, Tracy, Hepburn)
To Sir With Love (Poitier)
In the Heat of the Night (Poitier), They Call Me Mister Tibbs (Poitier)
Hidden Figures (2016)
A Day Without a Mexican
Jimmy’s Hall (Irish movie)
Hotel Rwanda
Sarafina!
City of Joy (Patrick Swayze)
Hundred-Foot Journey
Rumble in the Bronx (Jackie Chan)
Stand and Deliver
Zoot Suit
The Searchers (John Wayne)
Dances with Wolves
Titanic
Gangs of NY (2002), (Scorsese film; Leonardo DiCaprio)
12 Years as a Slave
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck story)
Frozen River
A Better Life
Sin Nombre
Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)
Enrique’s Journey
Which Way Home
Machuca (Chilean children)
Frontera (Not available this semester)
Born in East LA (Cheech Marin)
Viva Cuba
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Forest Whitaker)
Rabbit Proof Fence
Once Were Warriors
Mandingo / Drum
Shaka Zulu
Shogun
A Woman Called Moses
Desierto (2015)
Green Book (2018)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Disabilities/Differently-Abled:
My Left Foot (1989), (Daniel Day-Lewis)
King’s Speech, (Colin Firth)
The Theory of Everything (2014), (Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking)
A Beautiful Mind (2001), (Russell Crowe)
Still Alice (2015), (Juliana Moore)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012), (Bradley Cooper)
Ray (2004), (Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles)
Rain Man (1988), (Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise)
Children of a Lesser God (1986), (Wm Hurt)
Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), (Johnny Depp)
I Am Sam (2001)
Born on the 4th of July (1989), (Tom Cruise)
Elephant Man (1980), (John Hurt)
Freaks (1932)
Edward Scissorhands (1990), (Johnny Depp)
Sling Blade (1996), (Billy Bob Thornton)
Mask (1985), (Cher, Eric Stoltz)
Awakenings (1990), (Robin Williams)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), (Jack Nicholson)
Being There (1979), (Peter Sellers)
The Intouchables (2011)
To the Bone (2017)
Bad Day at Black Rock
TV Shows:
Good Times vs The Bill Cosby Show vs The Jeffersons
Shameless
Star Trek (any of the series) (e.g., STNG: The Birthright I&II)
Hercules/Xena
Kung Fu
Game of Thrones
George Lopez Show
Fresh Off the Boat
Modern Family
Animated Films:
Mulan
Brave
Zootopia
Moana
Lion King
Coco (2017)
Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
An American Tail (1986)
Bee Movie (2007)
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