This week, our writers were asked to make a list of the five greatest movies about school, and here’s what they returned:

 

Thomas Banks

1.Finding Forester

2.Dead Poets’ Society

3.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

4.The Browning Version

5.The Breakfast Club

 

Joshua Gibbs

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Parts I and II

2. Half Nelson

3. Rushmore

4. Flatliners

5. Can’t Hardly Wait

 

Brian Murnion

1. School of Rock (2003)

2. Dazed and Confused (1993)

3. The 400 Blows (1959)

4. Zéro de conduite (1933)

5. The Freshman (1925)

 

 

Remy Wilkins

1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)

2. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)

3. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)

4. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes)

5. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)

 

 

Elizabeth Stinnette

1. School Ties

2. Clueless

3. Finding Forrester

4. Stand and Deliver

5. Remember the Titans

 

Timothy Lawrence

1. The Breakfast Club

2. Rushmore

3. The 400 Blows

4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

5. Diabolique

 

Kanaan Trotter

1. The Breakfast Club

2. Good Will Hunting

3. School of Rock

4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

5. Back To The Future

 

Sean Johnson

1. Rushmore

2. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Sam Wood)

3. The 400 Blows

4. The Last Picture Show

5. To Sir, With Love

 

Joshua Stevenson

1. Submarine

2. Mean Girls

3. A Serious Man

4. Heathers

5. Metropolitan