Leadership Movies

Movies can teach students a lot about leadership because they can give students concrete models of behaviour for observation and discussion. Hollywood loves strong leaders because they can tell great stories, so it is interesting to see how students respond to a leadership portrayal. It is also valuable in using the movies listed to discover what the students think about what is Hollywood and what is reality.

An excellent resource for using movies to teach leadership lessons is the series entitled: Leadership in the Movies. These DVDs contain over fifty clips from the top movies of the last three years. Fourteen aspects of leadership responsibility are presented. There is a complete discussion guide for each clip that can be downloaded to your computer from the DVD in pdf format.

Download the order form for these DVD resources by clicking here.

You can also order direct from CASAA by clicking here.

Two very valuable Internet sites that can provide background and more information about these movies and more movies are:

The Internet movie database. It contains almost every movie ever made with plot lines, actors, trivia and reviews linked or listed. The best site to get the basic information and their rating of a movie.

Teach With Movies a site that lists their opinions on what movies are good to use as teaching tools and which ones are not. You may agree or disagree with their position, but this site has great movie listings and good sources for lesson plans.

Downloadable Lesson Plans for Leadership Movies

• Apollo 13
• Breaker Morant
• Chariots of Fire
• Dave
• Drumline

• Freedom Writers
• Henry V
• Hoosiers
• Lean on Me
• A Man for All Seasons
• October Sky
• Patton
• Pay it Forward
• Remember the Titans
• Rudy
• Stand and Deliver
• Tucker