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