100 Movies Every Kid Should Watch
The first movie appeared just a few years before the first issue of Boys’ Life. Since then, there have been a lot of great ones. Here are 100 movies that every kid should see. (Some suggestions will require parental guidance.)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Apollo 13
Avatar
Babe
Back to the Future
Bambi
The Bear
Bend It Like Beckham
Ben-Hur
Big
Black Panther
The Black Stallion
Brian’s Song (1971)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cars
Chariots of Fire
Chicken Run
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
Cool Runnings
Dances with Wolves
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Dead Poets Society
Duck Soup
Dumbo
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Edward Scissorhands
The Elephant Man (1980)
Empire of the Sun
Fantasia
Field of Dreams
Finding Nemo
Footloose
Forrest Gump
Frozen
Gettysburg
Ghostbusters
Glory
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Escape
Groundhog Day
Hamlet (1990)
Harry Potter (series)
Hidden Figures
Holes
Home Alone
Hoosiers
Hope and Glory
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
How to Train Your Dragon
The Hunger Games (series)
Ice Age
The Incredibles
Inside Out
The Iron Giant
It’s a Wonderful Life
James and the Giant Peach
Jurassic Park
The Karate Kid (1984)
King Kong (1933)
The Lion King
The Lord of the Rings
March of the Penguins
Master and Commander
The Mighty Ducks
Miracle (2004)
Moana
Moby Dick (1956)
Monsters, Inc.
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Mr. Mom
Mulan
Napoleon and Samantha
Never Cry Wolf
The Neverending Story
October Sky
Old Yeller
Peter Pan (1953)
Pinocchio (1940)
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Remember the Titans
The Rocketeer
Rocky
Rudy
Shane
Shrek
The Sound of Music
Stand By Me
Star Wars (series)
Swiss Family Robinson
The Ten Commandments
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Time Bandits
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Toy Story
Where the Red Fern Grows
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz
Where is the three stooges
Minecraft is awesome
interstellar should be on this list
the hobbit wasn’t a very good movie. it didn’t follow the books
its a money making scheme
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON WHERE R U
I’m glad they put some great movies on there. I recumbent Jurassic Park and The Incredibles. WATCH THEM!:P THEY’RE GOOD!:P
Why do they not have the hobbit movies
the goonies is good!
I know what films I’m watching today!
Real Steel (2011) should be on here.
There’s only 10 I haven’t seen grantee I will be watching many of these this summer
Totally
I’ve seen 36
seen 25
I wanted to have jurassic world on here that would be cool.
Cool! They should put age of ultron of the list though….
yeah they should.
I agree
Our New Scout patrol watches “A Cry in the Wild” every year when they make 2nd class. Its based on the wonderful book “Hatchet” – which most have read in school. It isn’t a big-budget film, but it really brings home how scout survival skills could save your life. After the film we discuss what the guy did right, and what mistakes he made, based on what they’ve learned in scouting.
WHY ISN’T PATTON (1970) IN HERE?!
Star Wars was a GUARANTEE to be on here.
I’ve seen 28
Follow Me Boys was always a big hit with our pack. When you first put it on the boys are always saying things like “this is old” but by the time the movie ends they’re always ready to watch it again.
Never mind!
What about E.T.?
Totally, add The Lego Movie!!!
I agree that they need sandlot.
They should of put on the list the movie ” Marley & Me, Life and Love With The Worlds Worst Dog”
Very touching story.
Wat about the lost boys
!9 movies ive seen of ALL of these. I need to catch up
I want war-games and jurrastic park (can anybody wait for jurrastic world)
What about “To Kill a Mockingbird”? One of the greatest movies ever, not to mention it stars Gregory Peck as the amazing Atticus Finch.
I have only seen 30 =(
You can’t have a movie list for boys without the SandLot. It’s a classic for all ages.
`Why is Boy’s Life recommending these movies? What values, life lessons, or skills do they reinforce? I agree may of these are entertaining – but why would you go out of your way to mention these 100? I would suggest this should be titled: “100 movies Boys might enjoy”
I’ve seen about 80 of these. Where is Ben-Hur, The Four Feathers, Around the World in 80 Days? So many more wonderful adventure films out there to view.
I’ve seen 51 one of these
Guess I am a major movie geek I got 90 of them.
Castaway!
I have seen 89 of these movies. I’m sure I have seen some of the others.
Have to say that I agree with the list.
What about Top Gun and Days of Thunder? Jumanji is another they missed.
Seen 91 of them. And star wars is on the list, lol.
87
never mind, I’ve seen 30.
I love apollo 13
What about star wars
Star Wars is there. It’s the 89th one down.
I’ve seen 28 of these.
Star Wars is in there.
Make that I have seen 27 I did not notice Swiss Family Robinson!
I have seen 26! I am glad they put on The Sound of Music!
the mummy should be here.
what about night of the museam 1-2-3
I’ll try to watch these!
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