Create Your Event Around Banned Books!
Banned Books Week — September 27–October 4, 2008
With a Public Performance license from Movie Licensing USA, your
library has the freedom to legally use movies all year long for
holiday events, books-to-movies programs, Summer reading, Banned
Books Week, Teen Read Week, and much more!
Banned
Books or Challenged Books
over the Years |
Related
Movie |
| Twelfth
Night by William Shakespeare |
She’s
the Man, Rated PG-13 |
| How
to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell |
How
to Eat Fried Worms, Rated PG |
| The
Chocolate War by Robert Cormier |
The
Chocolate War, Rated R |
| James
and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl |
James
and the Giant Peach, Rate PG |
| Matilda
by Roald Dahl |
Matilda,
Rated PG |
| The
Witches by Roald Dahl |
The
Witches, Rated PG |
| American
Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis |
American
Psycho, Rated R |
| Maurice by
E.M. Forster |
Maurice,
Rated R |
| Lord
of the Flies by William Golding |
Lord
of the Flies, Rated R |
| Catch
22 by Joseph Heller |
Catch 22, Rated R |
| The
Outsiders by S.E. Hinton |
The
Outsiders, Rated PG |
| A
Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen |
A
Doll’s House, Not Rated (1922) |
| From
Here to Eternity by James Jones |
From
Here to Eternity, Not Rated (1953) |
| Carrie by
Stephen King |
Carrie,
Rated R |
| Cujo by
Stephen King |
Cujo,
Rated R |
| To
Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
To
Kill A Mockingbird, Rated G |
| The
Call of the Wild by Jack London |
Call
of the Wild, Rated PG (1972) |
| Gone
with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
Gone
With The Wind, Not Rated (1939) |
| Beloved by
Toni Morrison |
Beloved,
Rated R |
| Lolita by
Vladimir Nabokov |
Lolita,
Not Rated (1962) |
| Harry
Potter series by J.K. Rowling |
Harry
Potter movies, Rate PG |
| Of
Mice and Men by John Steinbeck |
Of
Mice and Men, Rated PG-13 |
| Uncle
Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, Not Rated (1927) |
| Gulliver’s
Travels by Jonathan Swift |
Gulliver’s
Travels, Not Rated (1939) |
| The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain |
Huckleberry
Finn, Rated G |
| The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain |
Tom
Sawyer, Rated G |
| Slaughterhouse-Five by
Kurt Vannegut |
Slaughterhouse
Five, Rated R |
| The
Color Purple by Alice Walker |
The
Color Purple, Rated PG |
| You
can also create a Banned Books display, show related movies
and talk about controversial elements. Or, hold a film festival
showing movies about censorship, such as Farenheit 451
(Not Rated) based on Ray Bradbury’s classic science fiction
story about book burning, 1984 (Rated R) based
on George Orwell’s classic, Inherit the Wind
(Not Rated) about the Scopes Monkey Trial, or Footloose
(PG) about small town censorship. |
