The highschool teacher also had a list of Movies to watch before you die.  I also include my brother's hand written annotations.

Midnight Cowboy
Birth of A Nation
The Mission
Glory
Nicholas and Alexander
Citizen Kane
Gone with the wind
The Graduate
Henry V
Dead Poets Society
Steel Magnolia’s
A Dry White Season
Dr. Strangelove
High Noon
Clockwork Orange
West Side Story
Star Wars (triology)
China Town
Ordinary People
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Mr.Smith Goes to Washington
Little Big Man
Ben Hur
The Ten Commandments
Anything with Bogart
The Longest Day
The Wizard of Oz
It’s a Wonderful Life
Anything by the Marx brothers
From Here to Eternity
Any Alfred Hitchcock movie
Johnny Got His Gun
Land Before Time
Easy Rider
MASH (the movie)
Old Yeller
2001 Space Odyssey
Bridge on the River Kwai
Gelgud’s, Burtons and Gibson’s Hamlet

Dave’s Additions

The Man Who Would be King
The magnificent Seven
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Reds
The Hustler
Rocky
Blue Velvet
Holiday Inn

My brother added several items to the original list

Findley – The Wars
J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
Albee – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
E.M. Forrester – A Passage to India
Morley Callaghan – A Time for Judas
Hemingway – In our Time, The Sun also Rises
Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
Oscare Wilde the Picture of Dorain Gray
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Joseph  Heller – Catch-22
DeFoe – Robinson Crusoe

 

Here is the original List of What To Read Before You Die.  A highschool teacher I had put this together and here it is:

Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Tolkein - The Lord of the Rings
Tolstoy - War and Peace
Cervantes-  Don Quixote
Shakespeare – all his plays esp. tradgeies
Camus Strangers - The Plague
Sartre - No Exit, Being and Nothingness
Beckett - Waiting for Godot, Endgame
Malamud - The Fixer
Twain - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
Dickens - all of his books
Checkov - The Cherry Orchard
Orwell - Animal Farm, 1984
Golding -  Lord of the Flies
Dostoyevsky - The Brothers of Karamazov
Solzhenitsyn - A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich and anything else
Le Carre - The Spy who came in from the cold
Herman Melville -  Moby Dick
Romarque - All’s Quiet on the Western Fromt
Hesse - Steppenwoolf
James - What Maisy Knew
Huxley - Brave New World
Ford Maddox Ford - The Soldier
Virginia Wolf – To the Lighthouse
Faulkner –anything
Pynchon – anything
Conrad - Nostro or anything else
Joyce - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Fielding - Tom Jones
Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge
 

Non-fiction

The Bible
Plato’s republic
St Augustine City of God
Machiavelli - The prince
Hobbes - Leviathon
Locke - Second Treatise on Government
Rousseau Social Contract
Mill on Liberty
Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto
Zola - J’Accuse
McLuhan Understanding Media
Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Paine - The Rights of Man
Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France
Moore - Utopia
Tom Wolfe – anything