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
The count of Monte cristo and Nicholas nickleby
A great list with a strong midwestern bent. ❤️
The Goonies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
big fat liar and the sanlot are the best movies
I can’t be live that none of the Star Wars movies made it onto the list! This is outrageous! Its unfair!
The Star Wars series is on there – second row from the bottom, far left.
I cannot get behind a recommendation for Forrest Gump. The magical disabled person trope was a bad idea in 1994 and it has not aged well.
Since there are zero documentaries on that list, I’ll recommend the awesome “Won’t You By My Neighbor” doc of Fred Rogers. Skip the biopic and watch the documentary.
The Star Wars series is on there. Second row from the bottom, far left.
How about The Last Starfighter and Iron Eagle? Both are stories about youth rising above expectations.
Mr.Smith Goes to Washington
Duck Soup and Mr Holland’s Opus? Where’s The Sandlot??
The Sandlot!
Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, Mr. Scoutmaster (one of my classmates was the SPL in this one), maybe a touch of Abbott & Costello…