this is the list of movies and books from the book entitled, "What Stories Does My Son Need? A Guide to Books and Movies that Build Character in Boys" by: Michael Gurian
I love a lot of these - although i might add a few more personally. which would you add?
Stories and movies:
Movies=
Empire of the sun
Et
Field of dreams
Forrest gump
Free willy
Gallipoli
Gandhi
Glory
Gods must be crazy
Goodwill hunting
Grapes of wrath
Hamlet
High noon
Hoosiers
In and out
Inside moves
Iron giant
Iron will
It’s a wonderful life
Judgment at Nuremberg
Karate kid
Kramer vs. Kramer
Lassie come home
Life is beautiful
Lion king
Lucas
Man for all seasons
Mask
Matrix
Men don’t leave
Miracle on 34th street
Mississippi burning
Mr. holland’s opus
Mulan
My bodyguard
Never cry wolf
October sky
Old yeller
Paths of glory
Peter pan
Pinnochio
Places in the heart
Pride of the Yankees
Prince of Egypt
Prince of tides
Princess bride
Rocky
Rudy
Saving private ryan
Scent of a woman
Schindler’s list
Scrooged
Searching for bobby fischer
Shane
Shawshank redemption
Silverado
Simon birch
Simple plan
Sound of music
Stand by me
Swiss family robinson
Sword in the stone
ten commandments
Three wishes
To kill a mockingbird
Treasure island
Unforgiven
Vision quest
Wargames
Where the red fern grows
White squall
Willow
Books
Wind in the willows
Little prince
Lou gehrig: the luckiest man
Like jake and me
Aesop’s fables
Complete grimm’s fairy tales
Firestorm at kookaburra station
Minstrel in the tower
Mint cookie miracles
Stories Julian tells
Stuart little
When dinosaurs die
Wingman
Black beauty
Bridge to taribithia
Charlotte’s web
Chronicle’s on Narnia
Curse of the blue figurine
Defeat of the ghost riders
Gathering of days
Indian in the cupboard
Island of the blue dolphins
Phantom tollbooth
See behind trees
Stuck in neutral
Whipping boy
Animal farm
Bless the beasts and the children
Call of the wild
Dr. Jekyll and mr. hyde
Education of little tree
Grapes of wrath
Harry potter
Hatchet
Hobbit
If rock and roll were a machine
Johnny tremain
Jonathon Livingston seagull
Kim
Lord of the flies
Master puppeteer
Moves make the man
Nothing but the truth
Old man and the sea
Ordinary genius: the story of albert Einstein
Pearl
Red pony
Robinson crusoe
Running loose
Jungle
Stotan!
Tuesdays with morrie
Things fall apart
Staying fat for sarah byrnes
Stevie
Shiloh
Separate peace
Walt Whitman
William and the good old days
Wizard of earthsea
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