Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Signal 30
Doomsday for Pests
Making the Most of School
Lucy
Facing Reality
Drug Attack
Civil Defense in School
Hell's Highway
How to Smell a Rose
Mike Makes His Mark
The Show-Off
One Got Fat
The Other Fellow's Feelings
Let's Make a Sandwich
How Quiet Helps at School
Ten Long Minutes
Improve Your Personality
A Case of Beer
As Boys Grow
The Dangerous Stranger
Moment of Decision
Saying No
Story-Telling
Embrace of the Irrational
Don't Touch
Act Your Age
Highways of Agony
How to Write an Autobiography
It Doesn't Matter
The Party's Over
This is My Show
The Wonder of Reproduction
VD is For Everybody
Worth Waiting For
Who Is Safe?
What I Learned the Year I Made My Own Linen Underwear
Hall Pass
Back to school can be tough so in order to prepare our Fandor pupils, we've selected a wide range of educational videos to get you to class on time.
Selected Films
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Making the Most of School
Middle School student Carl has finished his assignment early. Should he spend the rest of science class idling like a useless halfwit? Heck no! Observing his more industrious fellow students, Carl gets ideas on how helping others, taking on extra projects and following the...Watch Movie
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Lucy
This cautionary tale of New Jersey-accented everygirl Lucy is surprisingly sophisticated and non-judgmental in its take on teenage pregnancy. "It all started when I met Joe. We dug each other right away," she tells us, recalling that cutting school to make out was "our first mistake." Pretty soon...Watch Movie
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Civil Defense in School
"The threat of disaster is never pleasant," our narrator begins. But the old perils like tornados and fires are nothing compared to those looming in "the age of the atom." This alarming short from the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization barely stops short of recommending...Watch Movie
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Drug Attack
This world-class 1960s time capsule is almost entirely composed of rapidly edited stills showing ordinary life (working, playing, driving, shopping) set to groovy instrumental music. At a certain point, however, the focus shifts to youth life, complete with Be-Ins and drug busts. It is clear that...Watch Movie
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Facing Reality
Everybody's excited about the upcoming school dance except, it seems, Mike, who always rains on everyone else's parade with his dissenting opinions and lame excuses for not helping out. Is he really such a drip? Or do statements like, "Girls are stupid and silly!" merely serve to "hide his sense...Watch Movie
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The Show-Off
Herk Harvey (CARNIVAL OF SOULS) is behind the camera in this educational film that illustrates the frustrations of fellow classmates with the high school show-off. Are there no limits? If the students can't get the school to enforce some sort of discipline, perhaps the parents can do a thing or...Watch Movie
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Mike Makes His Mark
Several years before James Dean patented the type in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, leather-jacketed, gum-chewing Mike here is a cute malcontent who just needs a little understanding to straighten up and fly right. Secretly worried he'll be "trapped into making his decisions against...Watch Movie
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How Quiet Helps at School
The ideal classroom is still as a tomb according to this vintage Coronet Instructional short. First we see a mildly chaotic room of first graders who are then contrasted with Miss Bradley's little angels next door. Apparently opening their yaps wide only on the playground,...Watch Movie
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As Boys Grow
"Puberty's a lotta things!" chirps track coach Gene Douglas in this sex education short whose juvenile actors were cast from the Boys Clubs of San Francisco. Handily armed with illustrative charts, he answers his curious charges' questions on everything from shaving to nocturnal emissions to how...Watch Movie
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A Case of Beer
Subtitled "A Major Minor Dilemna," this short was designed to educate retailers (especially convenience-store staff) who might be fined, lose their alcohol license or even be sent to jail if caught selling booze to the under-aged. We see various ruses the young use to try scoring some sauce, from...Watch Movie
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Story-Telling
This Coronet Instructional film uses the "creepy clown" figure (his macabre looks not improved by color film stock faded to a watery blood red) to introduce very young viewers to the concept of chronology. The game we play is called "What Happened First?" We're told some simple stories about...Watch Movie
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Moment of Decision
Sid Davis Productions' MOMENT OF DECISION centers on the very instant when four young men decide whether or not to steal an automobile. Each one thinks back to their past and what has brought them to this moment. Unfortunately, while individual decision may vary, the group...Watch Movie
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Embrace of the Irrational
EMBRACE OF THE IRRATIONAL begins as what appears to be an hour long educational video written and directed by the fictitious Martin Thebes. It centers around a meditation on the Romantics' ideal of emotional confusion as a way to find truth. Then the film slowly unravels as...Watch Movie
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This is My Show
WORKING WITH NATURE can be grueling and painful, but your host Adrienne Edmunds is ready and willing to walk you through what it takes to perfect and control your surroundings. Adrienne brings you the very best in high quality, high definition gardening television as she takes all of the...Watch Movie
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It Doesn't Matter
Filmmaker Lori Felker creates a science-for-kids television program to explore the meaning of matter, or, more specifically, what doesn't matter. Her two wacky physicists, wearing lab coats labeled "MATTER" and "DOESN'T MATTER" respectively, discuss the four phases of matter...Watch Movie
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The Wonder of Reproduction
The Moody Institute of Science presents THE WONDERS OF REPRODUCTION, an exploration of what it takes for two to make one (or more). Not directly about human reproduction, however, although the not-so-subtle connection is there. Instead, the educational film looks at the lives...Watch Movie
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Worth Waiting For
Film historian (and champion of outside-the-mainstream) Jack Stevenson claimed Wetzel Whitaker as the "unsung genius of Mormon educational filmmaking" and, in WORTH WAITING FOR, you can see why. Of the assorted Latter-Day Saints filmmakers, Whitaker has a unique handle on the...Watch Movie
