I'm compiling a list of "must see"
 

classic films from which students can select (and then do a report).

What films do you think belong on such a list? (I have my ideas, but I want the list to be pretty comprehensive)

Lawrence of Arabia.

a few that we had to watch in film class in college.

Citizen Kane
Vertigo
Casablanca
Frankenstein
indiana jones the first one

All the films mentioned so far are a go!

12 Angry Men...the original?

What class? What will the context of the report be about?

It's a course that broadly surveys media. They'll be writing about these films from a "historical-cultural" framework.

Gone with the Wind
Star Wars
North by Northwest
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Manchurian Candidate (the old version)
The French Connection
The Deer Hunter
Easy Rider
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Blazing Saddles
When Harry Met Sally
Ghostbusters
Arsenic and Old Lace
Caddyshack

Philadelphia Story

Airplane--seriously, when you think of all of those films that came out of that, well, its pretty remarkable.

The Thin Man (the original of that series)--mysteries, love, etc.

Apocalypse Now
Equus
Vanilla Sky
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
North by Northwest
Rear Window
A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Clockwork Orange
Saving Private Ryan
All Quiet on the Western Front