Programming Ideas For Your School

With a Public Performance Site License from Movie Licensing USA, you can show movies all year round! Below are some ideas to get you started. You can also check out our Newest Movie Releases for the most recent titles.

Winter Themes     Happy Feet (PG), Alaska (PG), Cool Runnings (PG), Jack Frost (PG), Snow Day (PG)

Black History Month     Akeelah and the Bee (PG), Remember the Titans (PG), Radio (PG)         Feb. 2   Groundhog Day     Groundhog Day (PG)   Feb. 4   SuperBowl     Remember The Titans (PG), Air Bud: Golden Receiver (G), Little Giants (PG), Rudy (PG)   Feb. 14   Valentine’s Day     Ella Enchanted (PG), Beauty & the Beast (G), The Perfect Man (PG)   Feb. 19   President's Day     Watch First Kid (PG) and draw pictures of the President.

Mar. 26-30   Copyright Awareness Week     Pick a new release of your choice! Explain to students about copyright and why it’s important to follow.       March Madness     Air Bud (PG), Space Jam (PG), Hoosiers (PG)       Women's History Month     A League of Their Own (PG), Coal Miner's Daughter (PG)

Apr. 1   Opening Day of Baseball     Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (G), Field of Dreams (PG), The Babe (PG), Angels in the Outfield (PG), The Rookie (G), Little Big League (PG), A League of Their Own (PG), The Natural (G)       Spring Themes     How to Eat Fried Worms (PG), Antz (G), A Bug’s Life (G), James & the Giant Peach (PG)   Apr. 22   Earth Day     Watch Sacred Planet (G) or A Far Off Place (PG) and discuss how everyone can take better care of our planet. Visit a recycling plant or learn about conservation. Try an activity such as burying plastic, paper, tin, etc. in the ground and digging it up a few months later to see how it decomposed.

Spring/End of School     Cars (G), Brother Bear (G), Country Bears (G), Home on the Range (PG), Racing Stripes (PG), Forever Young (PG), Valiant (G), Over the Hedge (PG)

Summer Camps, Vacations, etc.     Charlotte's Web (G), Bridge to Terabithia (PG), The Goonies (PG), Chicken Run (G), Lilo & Stitch (PG), Recess: School’s Out (G), Hoot (PG)

Summer Time / Water Fun     Free Willy (PG), Finding Nemo (G), Shark Tale (PG), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (PG), Flipper (PG), The Little Mermaid (G)   July 4   Independence Day     Watch Johnny Tremain (G) and make American Flags to decorate a bulletin board or classroom.

End of Summer / Back to School     Flushed Away (PG), Madagascar (PG), Grease (PG), Dead Poets Society (PG), Back to School (PG-13), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (PG), Encino Man (PG)

Back to School / Fall     Kicking & Screaming (PG), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestial (PG), Flubber (PG), Teacher’s Pet (PG), Stand & Deliver (PG), Sacred Planet (G) , Open Season (PG)

Oct. 31   Halloween     Monster House (PG), The Haunted Mansion (PG), Hocus Pocus (PG), Clue (PG), Gremlins (PG), Ghostbusters (PG), Monsters, Inc. (G), Scooby Doo (PG), Beetlejuice (PG), Creature from the Black Lagoon (G), Casper (PG)

Nov. 22   Thanksgiving     Pocahontas (G), Plymouth Adventure (NR), Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale (PG)

Dec. 25   Christmas     The Santa Clause 1, 2 or 3(PG), An All Dogs Christmas (G), Elf (PG), All I Want For Christmas (G), A Christmas Story (PG), Christmas with the Kranks (PG), Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas (PG), Muppet Christmas Carol (G), One Magic Christmas (G), Prancer (G), The Polar Express (G)   Dec. 25 - Jan. 1   Hanukkah     Fiddler on the Roof (G), Radio Days (PG)   Dec. 26 - Jan. 1   Kwanzaa     Are We There Yet? (PG), The Preacher's Wife (PG)