Ok, one of the things our school does is have a week in the spring for kind of alternative education type programs. This year I decided to do one on classic films. For starters, I narrowed it down to movies from before any of them were born(which is basically 1990 or so), and movies that most of them haven't seen(so while folks might love Star Wars or Casablanca, etc those movies are on TV enough that the kids have seen them). Oh, and one other note, can't be rated R(which alas, tosses out some of the excellent 70s cinema). I'm going to be picking up a pretty wide selection of films over Christmas break(because well, its actually kind of hard to find legitimate copies of movies over here in Korea and for a school event, can't be pirated copies), and thought I'd look here for ideas, since I don't want my own particularly opinions to completely dominate what we pick from. I'm planning on picking up about 30 DVDs, of which we'll end up watching about 10 that week(each kid will also get to pick one to take away from the week as well).
So basically, I'm looking for nominations from folks, if you had to pick 10 films or so that kids really should see, for appreciation of the art, cultural awareness, or just a rockin' good time, what would you pick?