History MediaNotes / SchoolStudyMedia

* ''Literature/{{Tangerine}}'' is common in middle schools.

* The works of pre-modernist author Main/LimaBarreto are often used in Brazilian schools in Portuguese and/or History classes to teach about life and racial inequality in 20th century Brazil. His classic book Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma (“The sad end of Policarpo Quaresma”) is the most common one taught in schools.

* ''A Bag of Marbles''

* ''Literature/{{Confessions}}''

* ''Film/{{Breathless}}'', along with other UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave movies, in film classes. Advanced knowledge of Creator/JeanLucGodard's filmmaking is mandatory to get in French film schools, even.

* ''Film/ThePassenger'' is a less common film directed by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni of ''Blow Up'' fame.

* It has become a bit of a cliche in many American schools to show ''{{Pocahontas}}'', not because the film is historically accurate but because it's not — it's now a common film to use to teach students about how American history can be sanitized, Hollywood stereotypes about Native Americans, etc. as well as deconstructing a work of media more broadly.

* It has become a bit of a cliche in many American schools to show ''[[Pocahontas]]'', not because the film is historically accurate but because it's not — it's now a common film to use to teach students about how American history can be sanitized, Hollywood stereotypes about Native Americans, etc. as well as deconstructing a work of media more broadly.

* It has become a bit of a cliche in many American schools to show ''WesternAnimation/Pocahontas'', not because the film is historically accurate but because it's not — it's now a common film to use to teach students about how American history can be sanitized, Hollywood stereotypes about Native Americans, etc. as well as deconstructing a work of media more broadly.

* ''Film/{{Breathless}}'', along with other UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave movies, in film classes.

* Creator/GuyDeMaupassant's novellas in France.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'': Particularly for its philosophical influences (eg. Plato's [[Main/PlatonicCave Allegory of the Cave]], UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}}).

* Many quotations from ''[[Creator/{{Confucius}} The Analects of Confucius]]'' are heavily studied throughout the secondary school curriculum for Chinese Language in Hong Kong.
* ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' [[note]] especially if students are being taught about the October Revolution and Joseph Stalin in history class at the same time, which makes it especially good for introducing students to satire and allegory. [[/note]]

* ''Literature/TheBalladOfMulan'' in Hong Kong secondary schools, usually in Secondary 1[[note]]7th Grade[[/note]], though some primary schools may have taught it independently from the curriculum

* ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery''

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* ''Anime/{{Akira}}''

* Creator/{{Pixar}} films are used in some English classes to teach about storytelling. They even have a course at Khan Academy about this sort of thing. It can be found [[https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar/storytelling here.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''
** ''WesternAnimation/PixarShorts''

* ''Theatre/TheCrucible''

* In the Philippines, ''Literature/IbongAdarna'', ''Literature/FloranteAtLaura'', ''Literature/NoliMeTangere'', and ''Literature/ElFilibusterismo'' (the latter two by famous national hero Creator/JoseRizal), are required reading for seventh through tenth grade, respectively.

* ''In'' the Philippines, Jose Rizal's novels
** ''Literature/NoliMeTangere'' and its sequel,
** ''Literature/ElFilibusterismo''