100 Movies Every Kid Should Watch
The first movie appeared just a few years before the first issue of Boys’ Life. Since then, there have been a lot of great ones. Here are 100 movies that every kid should see. (Some suggestions will require parental guidance.)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Apollo 13
Avatar
Babe
Back to the Future
Bambi
The Bear
Bend It Like Beckham
Ben-Hur
Big
Black Panther
The Black Stallion
Brian’s Song (1971)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cars
Chariots of Fire
Chicken Run
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
Cool Runnings
Dances with Wolves
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Dead Poets Society
Duck Soup
Dumbo
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Edward Scissorhands
The Elephant Man (1980)
Empire of the Sun
Fantasia
Field of Dreams
Finding Nemo
Footloose
Forrest Gump
Frozen
Gettysburg
Ghostbusters
Glory
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Escape
Groundhog Day
Hamlet (1990)
Harry Potter (series)
Hidden Figures
Holes
Home Alone
Hoosiers
Hope and Glory
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
How to Train Your Dragon
The Hunger Games (series)
Ice Age
The Incredibles
Inside Out
The Iron Giant
It’s a Wonderful Life
James and the Giant Peach
Jurassic Park
The Karate Kid (1984)
King Kong (1933)
The Lion King
The Lord of the Rings
March of the Penguins
Master and Commander
The Mighty Ducks
Miracle (2004)
Moana
Moby Dick (1956)
Monsters, Inc.
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Mr. Mom
Mulan
Napoleon and Samantha
Never Cry Wolf
The Neverending Story
October Sky
Old Yeller
Peter Pan (1953)
Pinocchio (1940)
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Remember the Titans
The Rocketeer
Rocky
Rudy
Shane
Shrek
The Sound of Music
Stand By Me
Star Wars (series)
Swiss Family Robinson
The Ten Commandments
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Time Bandits
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Toy Story
Where the Red Fern Grows
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz
i have seen 36 of them
40!
I would add Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, American Graffiti, and A Christmas Story
Watched about half of them
wheres cast away, facing the giants, couragous, and the blind side
I gotta agree with you there!
16 (darn it)
36 with (only bits of 7 others)
NEMO!!!!! SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!
they forgot napoleon dynamite!!!!!!!
♥ your name!
PEECHTIVAL!
I have seen 30
make that 41 soon to be 42 ( i’m gonna watch “30 seconds over tokyo)
I’v seen 36
I have seen 42 not including seqals also they should update the website it’s 2012 not 2005.
ive seen 48 0f these movies….if i counted right
soon they should add Captain America and Tintin some of the best of ’11
Yes! Yes! You are so RIGHT!!
or THOR!!!
36
29
what about stand by me
i saw 27 bambi isn’t to good (but i hunt)
not top 100 they need newer movies
they need movies like “Cars”, “The Sandlot”, and “Shiloh”. Cars 2 should be at #1. great movie!!!
These aren’t necessarily the ‘best’ movies of all time, they are more the most ‘classic’.
38 not counting six star wars and 3 lord of the ring or 3 shereks and 3 toy storys
I’ve seen 38. I’ve only seen parts of The Ten Commandments though…it’s a LONG movie. (But good)
I’ve seen 63 in their entirety and another 15 or so in bits and pieces. But then, I’ve been around a lot longer than most boys.
Seen 25 of them.
You forgot starwars:1,2,3,4,5 and 6!
When they said “Star Wars” they were referring to the whole series.
seen about 31
What about The Bad News Bears?
You Forgot:
The Rookie
Second Hand Lions
Quigley Down Under
And Others
With you on Secondhand Lions.
“The Rookie” and “Secondhand Lions” are both great movies. I’m in.
amen brother
35
I have seen all of them (:
Secondhand lions
Cars
Into the wild
The sandlot
A knights tale
The outsiders
And a few more were forgotten.
it’s not neccasarily TOP 100, just a good 100
92 Seen I have 8 more to go!
I have seen about 31
I did not see braveheart on the list.
How could “The Rookie” not have made this list? And I’m not even a baseball fan (but that’s one excellent movie, IMO).
I was surprised to count 86 that I have seen. I’d better get to the other 14.
some of them r young but most of them r good
31
add the movie MoonRaker
add the movie The Mummy
agreed
only seen about 7
Sadly, I haven’t seen a lot of them.
what abot the Out Law Trail !
36 movies
around 7
30 I’ve seen
48,take that.
Sadly, I’ve only seen 32 all the way through (WarGames, Contact, Follow Me Boys, etc.), but many I’ve seen part of (like Hoosiers and Edward Scissorhands) and I’ve heard of almost all of them.
At least you beat me. Good job!
34 total
35! I Win! Some of my favorites are the Civil War/Napoleanic War based movies like Master & Commander, Gettysburg, Glory, and movies like that.
I like those kind too.
i really like gettysburg
Where are “Cars” “Up” “Toy Story 2” “Transformers” “WallE” “Chicken Little” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”??????
Every Pixar movie should be on there, even “Andre & Wally B.”! (even though that is just a short)
Toy story 1 is on there, they don’t need two, Transformers was horrible, and Wall-E was horrible.
What about Toy story 3???? love it, even if its a bit young:)
Yes! Where are they?
I don’t think it does sequels.
I can’t believe that you didn’t include Second Hand Lions!
That is a great movie im suprised it wasnt listed
‘Transformers 3’ would be a cool addition!
You rock dude. =D
I have seen 56 of them. I really liked Follow Me Boys+ Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!
they should have the deathly hallows on there!
no!!!!!
Yes!!!!
So agreeing with you.
Yes they should. They should also have transformers 3 on there!
Transformers 3 is NOT a classic. Some are new I know but they’re all very good, moral filled movies.
you rock
love that movie