I hear its become common for History teachers to show fictionalized movies as part of their lessons. For for example the movie Flyboys (2006) to teach about WW1. We watched films too but only once a year and as a treat or reward, and the films were at least more realistic. The last week before summer vacation we watched Das Boot.
Edit: Watching a film at school was a treat because most of us late 1980's kids did not have access to a VCR or cable TV. Only the rich kids had those giant sattelite dishs.
I recall teachers using snippets of movies that were accurate to a specific event and occasionally showing some movies that showed a semi accurate overview of events. They showed a scene from the patriot in one of my classes. WW1 was just kinda glossed over and just touched upon with bullet points. Europeans fought each-other, trenches, poison gas, american gets involved, and 14 points. A lot of event were taught like that, kinda disjointed so a day or two can be spent on a bullet-point before we hurried along to the next regardless of how important that particular part was with few exceptions.. Could be because my school had 7 periods (It was a very large school, so they had two lunch periods, some people had period 4 but not period 6, and vice versa) that each lasted an hour when a lot of other schools here have drifted towards a 4 period day with hour and a half long classes. So maybe it was because of the less time in each class. Not sure though, but yes, they did use scenes from movies as part of a lesson, usually because they were feeling lazy or had something to say about what was shown.
I hear its become common for History teachers to show fictionalized movies as part of their lessons. For for example the movie Flyboys (2006) to teach about WW1. We watched films too but only once a year and as a treat or reward, and the films were at least more realistic. The last week before summer vacation we watched Das Boot. Edit: Watching a film at school was a treat because most of us late 1980's kids did not have access to a VCR or cable TV. Only the rich kids had those giant sattelite dishs.
I recall teachers using snippets of movies that were accurate to a specific event and occasionally showing some movies that showed a semi accurate overview of events. They showed a scene from the patriot in one of my classes. WW1 was just kinda glossed over and just touched upon with bullet points. Europeans fought each-other, trenches, poison gas, american gets involved, and 14 points. A lot of event were taught like that, kinda disjointed so a day or two can be spent on a bullet-point before we hurried along to the next regardless of how important that particular part was with few exceptions.. Could be because my school had 7 periods (It was a very large school, so they had two lunch periods, some people had period 4 but not period 6, and vice versa) that each lasted an hour when a lot of other schools here have drifted towards a 4 period day with hour and a half long classes. So maybe it was because of the less time in each class. Not sure though, but yes, they did use scenes from movies as part of a lesson, usually because they were feeling lazy or had something to say about what was shown.