Leadership Movies
Purpose of Movies
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"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done and self-restrain enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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The purpose of the movies is to give students a chance to see leadership and familiarize themselves with different styles of, and approaches to, leadership. The movies educate the student and provide an alternative to studying the chapters.
Genres of Leadership Movies
- Women's: Movies that display women in leadership roles, or women taking on leadership roles.
- Historical: Concerned with leadership throughout certain historical eras or events, such as the forming of a nation, a revolution, war, etc.
- Patriotic: Like historical, but more concentrated on the patriotism within a certain group of people.
- Educational: Displays instances of leadership within the classroom, having to do with the classroom, or subject within the classroom.
- Business: Explores stories of leadership that have to do with starting or continuing a business, the downfall of a business, a business man/woman, etc.
- Political: leadership on the political front (i.e. congress, lobbyist, presidential, local, senate, etc.)
- Miscellaneous: Any other film that displays instances of leadership within a person or group.
Women's Leadership Movies
- Iron Jawed Angels
- The Color Purple
- Frida
- Little Women
- The Messenger: The
story of Joan of Arc
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Historical Leadership Movies
- American History X
- Apollo 13
- Gone With the Wind
- Schindler's List
- The Longest Day
- The New World
- Hotel Rwanda
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Patriotic Leadership Movies
- Les Miserables
- The Patriot
- Braveheart
- The Alamo
- United 93
- Mr. Smith goes to
Washington
- Forrest Gump
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Educational Leadership Movies
- Mona Lisa Smile
- Dead Poet's Society
- Akeelah and the Bee
- Pay It Forward
- Mr. Holland's Opus
- Tuesday's with Morrie
- The King and I
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Business Leadership Movies
- Barbershop
- Erin Brockovich
- The Firm
- Chocolat
- The Shawshank
Redemption
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Political Leadership Movies
- JFK
- Dick
- Wag the Dog
- The Candidate
- Citizen Kane
- Gandhi
- Primary Colors
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Miscellaneous Leadership Movies
- The Princess Bride
- Armageddon
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Swiss Family
Robinson
- Lord of the Flies
- The Day After Tomorrow
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Movie review websites
We would like the students to be able to know a little about the movie before they chose to watch it, so we have provided some sites that will direct students to reviews on any movie that they chose.
Links to movie trailers
We want the students to be able to watch a trailer of the movie before they chose to view it, that way they determine if this movie really appeals to their interests in leadership or not.
Student Reviews
- Have students write and post their own reviews on the movies they have watched, for other students to see.
- These Reviews could be posted on WebCTVista as discussion groups, and monitored by the teacher.
- We suggest having a link to a MySpace website in which students can leave reviews for others to view.
For more information check out www.myspace.com
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