Recommended Movies

The following is a list of movies I recommend to Social Work students. If you would like to submit a movie with a theme of social justice, social work, or social problems, please email social work (below).

• Pursuit of Happyness
• Crash
• Maria Full of Grace
• Hotel Rwanda
• Claudine
• Iron Jawed Angels
• Pay It Forward
• Rent
• The Long Walk Home
• John Q
• Malcolm X
• Super Size Me
• Profoundly Normal
• I Am Sam
• The Cure
• Philadelphia
• A River Runs Through It
• The Color Purple
• El Norte
• Dead Man Walking
• Erin Brockovich
• The Station
• Fahrenheit 911
• Bowling for Columbine
• Diary of a Mad Blackwoman
• Cool Runnings
• Twenty-Eight Days
• Rainmaker
• Wag the Dog
• Schindler's List
• When a Man Loves a Woman
• Amistad
• Ghosts of Mississippi
• A Beautiful Mind
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Joy Luck Club
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• The Green Mile
• A Civil Action
• Mi Familia/My Family
• Shawshank Redemption
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Losing Isaiah
• Changing Lanes