THE MISSION
…the time of the missions. Describe the amazing history of the Jesuit Missions in South America. See the Helpful Background section. Then provide some other facts about the Jesuit order….
MEMPHIS BELLE
…crew was 25 missions while the average survival rate was only 15 missions. Was it good policy for the leaders of the U.S. Army Air Force to put their bomber…
RABBIT-PROOF FENCE
…Confidential evidence 333, Western Australia The missions attracted families whose children would otherwise be taken from them. [But …] Even when at the mission the children still took every precaution….
APOLLO 13
…the potential success of the mission and risk wasting all of the effort and money put into the mission, out of loyalty to one member. (Additional questions on this topic…
FAIL-SAFE
…country is able to defend itself against any possible aggressor. Accordingly, I have directed the Atomic Energy Commission to continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the…
HOTEL RWANDA
…themselves.) General Roméo Dallaire of Canada was appointed Force Commander. He first arrived in Rwanda on an information-gathering mission with little more than a map and an encyclopedia article on…
ALPHABETICAL INDEX FOR THE LETTER “M”
…Seafaring; SEL: Courage in War; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Trustworthiness) [10+] The Miracle Worker (Biography/Keller; U.S./1865 – 1913; SEL: Disabilities; Female Role Model; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility; Caring) [10+] The Mission The Best…
EYE IN THE SKY
…aggression drive, Lorenz posited, was often limited within species by a “submission” phenomenon, whereby potential victims turn off the aggressive drive in others by displaying signs of submission. In this…
GATTACA
…work, a man who opposed the mission that Vincent has been scheduled to take. Is Vincent the murderer? Will the investigation expose Vincent as an “in-valid” and a “de-gene-erate?” Selected…
NATIONAL SECURITY WHISTLEBLOWERS
…Superior Orders Defense of Superior Orders before Military Commission by James B. Insco, Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, 2003, Vol 13:389; Wikipedia Article on the Golden Rule accessed…
STAGES AND ARCHETYPES OF THE HERO’S JOURNEY
…group; others are missions to protect or transform a community; many are stories of personal growth and development. The protagonists of these successful quests are often called heroes and the…
Rebellion
…[13+] Michael Collins (Peace/Peacemakers; Courage in War; Breaking Out; Rebellion; Ethical Emphasis: Trustworthiness; Respect; Subjects: Biography; World/Ireland) [14+] The Mission (Brothers; Redemption; Courage; Rebellion; Ethical Emphasis: Respect; Subjects: Religions/Christianity; World/South…
Redemption
…Emphasis: Trustworthiness; Responsibility; Subjects: The Environment; Science/Technology) [8 – 11] The Mission (Brothers; Redemption; Courage; Rebellion; Ethical Emphasis: Respect; Subjects: Religions/Christianity; World/South America, Paraguay, Brazil) [13+] On The Waterfront (Redemption;…
Brothers
…Subjects: World/England; Drama/England) [12+] Lust for Life (Talent; Brothers; Mental Illness; Suicide; Ethical Emphasis: Caring; Subjects: Biography/Van Gogh; World/France; Visual Arts) [12+] The Mission (Brothers; Redemption; Courage; Rebellion; Ethical Emphasis:…
SELMA
…core responsibilities and violated the Constitutional prohibition against unreasonable searches. Dr. King’s betrayal of his wife was not related to his public mission of being a civil rights leader and…
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
…adopted as his mission in life, and as an evangelical ministry for his church, working with young people and their parents through television. Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood was never overtly religious,…
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
…have children ages two to five, show them recorded episodes of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. It is among the best children’s programming ever produced. Fred Rogers’ main mission in life was…
RESPECT
…Short Subject (Subjects: U.S./1629 – 1750) [7 – 11; 24 minutes] Michael Collins (Trustworthiness; Respect; SEL: Peace/Peacemakers; Courage in War; Breaking Out; Rebellion; Subjects: World/Ireland; Biography) [14+] The Mission (SEL:…
FILMS LISTED BY APPROPRIATE AGE: Fourteen Years
…[12+] The Miracle Worker (Biography/Keller; U.S./1865 – 1913; SEL: Disabilities; Female Role Model; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility; Caring) [10+] The Mission (Religions/Christianity; World/South America, Paraguay, Brazil; SEL: Redemption; Courage; Brothers; Rebellion;…
FILMS LISTED BY APPROPRIATE AGE: Fifteen-Seventeen Years
FILMS LISTED BY APPROPRIATE AGE: Three Years Four Years Five Years Six Years Seven Years Eight Years Nine Years Ten Years Eleven Years Twelve Years Thirteen Years Fourteen Years Fifteen-Seventeen…
THE BEST OF TWM: WORLD HISTORY FOR HIGH SCHOOL
…Courage in War; Breaking Out; Peace/Peacemakers; Rebellion; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Trustworthiness; Respect) [14+] The Mission This movie provides a glimpse of the Jesuit missions in South America which offered a near-utopian…
FILMS LISTED BY APPROPRIATE AGE: Thirteen Years
…Emphasis: Responsibility; Caring) [10+] The Mission (Religions/Christianity; World/South America, Paraguay, Brazil; SEL: Redemption; Courage; Brothers; Rebellion; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Respect) [13+] Moby Dick (Literature/U.S.; Seafaring; U.S./1812 – 1860 & Massachusetts; SEL:…
SUBJECT MATTER: WORLD HISTORY/OTHER CULTURES
…& Steel – Jared Diamond’s Theory of the Development of Civilizations (World History/Cultures; Health) [14+] World History Lesson Plans from Movies and Films Relating to South America The Mission Religions/Christianity;…
CHARIOTS OF FIRE
…British upper class wanted to avoid being considered “tradesmen.” The English and Scottish Protestant churches supported active missionary movements including missions to Africa and China. The Liddell family was part…
HAWAII
…States. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions became interested in sending missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands, then called the Sandwich Islands. They took with them four Hawaiians, one…
SUBJECT MATTER: RELIGIONS
…The Mission (Religions/Christianity; World/South America, Paraguay, Brazil; SEL: Redemption; Courage; Brothers; Rebellion; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Respect) [13+] The Scarlet Letter (U.S./1629 – 1750 & Massachusetts; Religions/Christianity; Literature/U.S.; SEL: Redemption; Romantic Relationships;…
Mass Casualties Lesson Plan
…This is an account of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC), the first permanent agency in Japan set up to study the medical impact of radiation upon survivors. The ABCC…
SUBJECT MATTER: WORLD HISTORY/OTHER CULTURES
…Sun World/Brazil & Albania [12+; Literary devices analyzed: symbols, subplot, flashback, foreshadowing and irony.] The Mission Religions/Christianity; World/South America, Paraguay, Brazil [13+] Canada — Lesson Plans from Films Relating to…
Interview with Dr. Craig Stanford
…about the larger environmental issues. So it’s been 20 years now that she’s been on this mission to be kind of the Mother Theresa for the environment, and I do…
THIRTEEN DAYS
…with battlefield nuclear weapons. Their mission was to defend the island and the local Soviet commanders had authority to use nuclear weapons if they were attacked. 15. President Kennedy…
SOUTH PACIFIC
…several romances and one reconnaissance mission. The story is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener. Selected Awards: 1958 Academy Awards: Best Sound;…
FILMS LISTED BY APPROPRIATE AGE: Eighteen Years (and up)
…(Science; the Environment) [12+] The Miracle Worker (Biography/Keller; U.S./1865 – 1913; SEL: Disabilities; Female Role Model; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility; Caring) [10+] The Mission (Religions/Christianity; World/South America, Paraguay, Brazil; SEL: Redemption;…
Courage
…(Courage; Male Role Model; Ethical Emphasis: Trustworthiness; Subjects: Biography/Thomas More; World/England & the Renaissance; Religions/Christianity; Drama/England) [12+] The Mission (Brothers; Redemption; Courage; Rebellion; Ethical Emphasis: Respect; Subjects: Religions/Christianity; World/South America,…
SUBJECT MATTER: WORLD HISTORY/OTHER CULTURES
…to Paraguay The Mission Religions/Christianity; World/South America, Paraguay, Brazil [13+] Poland — Lesson Plans from Films Relating to Poland Conquest (Biography/Napoleon Bonaparte; World/France, Poland & The 1800s; SEL: Romantic Relationships;…
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
…in which Colonel Brandon rescues Marianne, makes gifts of the pianoforte and the flowers, embarks on an emergency mission to bring Mrs. Dashwood to Marianne’s sickbed, and later dramatically reads…
AMISTAD
…developed into the American Missionary Association (“AMA”) when it merged with two other missionary antislavery societies in 1846. For the next hundred years, the AMA sought to enhance educational opportunities…
STORY STARTERS
…in your mind a spaceship that is shaped like a donut, is powered by grass clippings and can fly to Jupiter and back. You can also add a mission to…
A CALL TO SPY
…mission in France: place spies everywhere to build resistance and conduct sabotage. But there are no experienced spies for this new type of warfare. A call must go out to…
TALKING AND PLAYING WITH MOVIES: WALL-E
…the spaceship to evaluate conditions on Earth. Wall-E immediately falls in love with Eve and offers the plant in an attempt to impress it. Controlled by its mission, Eve automatically…
HIDDEN FIGURES
…gifted mathematician, performs essential calculations and makes important theoretical contributions for determining the trajectories and orbits of America’s first satellites and manned space missions. Backing up a digital computer’s early…
THE BEST OF TWM: SCIENCE FOR HIGH SCHOOL
…on a mission to Alaska to learn about the lives of wolves. The movie is the story of his misadventures and his discoveries. The TWM Learning Guide to Never Cry…
THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
…him to find a mission for his life and he undertakes a journey to self-respect. The regenerative power of the exposure of Washington’s hard-boiled character to the sweetness of the…
CONTACT
…and books were written about them. Quasi-scientific missions set out to discover the aliens in the act. Occam’s Razor told the skeptics that the simplest hypothesis (i.e., the designs were…
FLY AWAY HOME
…arising from her mother’s untimely death. She accomplishes this, in part, through her second quest, a mission in which she and her father work together to teach her orphaned geese…
TALKING AND PLAYING WITH MOVIES: TOY STORY
…the other toys who think that he tried to push Buzz out of a window. imagination, rescue, mission, cowboy, astronaut, toys, replaced, rejection, jealousy, laser, infinity, rocket. CONVERSATION STARTERS …
SPOTLIGHT
…institutions fail in their mission and pursue unstated agendas at the expense of those they claim to serve. Students will gain an understanding of the role of the Press in…
TeachWithMovies.org’s annotated, Notes on the Decision to End WWII with Surprise Atomic Bomb Attacks on Japan (optional reading for teachers)
…in validation of its mission, post war budget share, ships and billets for officers and continued autonomy. The Navy was seeking, in postwar planning, a 300 ship navy, large enough…
Music Within
…in advocating for the disabled. Actually, he becomes obsessed with his mission . . . and there are costs. Mike is unable to fight off his demons and commits suicide….
TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH
…prove that daylight raids would not result in unacceptable losses. The odds against a crew surviving the war were daunting. The original tour of duty was 25 missions. The average…
Chronology for the Development of the Atomic Bomb and Its Use Against Japan
…which will deliver atomic bombs in combat, though most of the men do not know their secret mission. October 12: The first B-29s arrive in the Mariana Islands to begin…
THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY
…Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson and others. Listening to Robinson’s speeches and following in his footsteps, they played as if they were on a mission. Nor did Robinson complaisantly accept the…
THE INSIDER
…mission. The director could have been likening Dr. Wigand to a soldier going to his death for a good cause or he could have been referring to the fact that…
TALKING AND PLAYING WITH MOVIES: ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN
…of the refuge, which makes it a hard mission. It means they’re more difficult to find . . . but hopefully not harder to save. You ready?” Jonah nodded. They…
Two Versions of “Ain’t I A Woman?”
…an excited crowd into notes of respect and admiration. hundreds rushed up to shake hands with her, and congratulate the glorious old mother, and bid her God-speed on her mission…
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!
…run aground near an island off the New England coast and a landing party is put ashore. Its mission: to steal a boat and tow the sub out to sea….
FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY
…until he retired. He also served as chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1947 to 1952. When Oppenheimer opposed the development of the hydrogen…