A Movie Junky's Themed Suggestions

So, I love watching movies.  I also enjoy a large range of themes.  I thought I would share some of my favorites.  Basically that is it.  Feel free to give recommendations in the comments.  I got an IMDb account, so check out my lists there (username: clar-bar).

North Korea Documentary Series
1. National Geographic: Inside North Korea (An Overview)
2. A State of Mind (State Ideology)
3. Kimjongilia (Forced Labor Camps, the Lives of Soldiers, and tales from Other Escapees)
4. Seoul Train (The Underground Railroad) 
Other Suggestions: The Juche Idea and Crossing the Line
*Vice (available on YouTube) have a number of interesting reports related to North Korea

Diversity in the United States Film Series
This came about because I am studying in Japan and I feel like many Japanese people are not familiar with race relations in general.  If you look at laws relating to visas and citizenship you can get a pretty good idea how welcoming said country is to immigrants or foreigners.  For example, South Korea requires for the visa to get HIV tested.  Anyway, I am tutoring some people in English and I gave some recommendations for movies where this is a major theme.  I think it is an entertaining but still though provoking way to introduce the issue to people.  I wanted to include a number of things because diversity does not just related to race.  Therefore, some of these issues will be more familiar than others for people outside the United States.  I haven't thought of a list of movies dealing with economic class.  (One that I can think of is The Pursuit of Happyness(2006).)   I also did not come up with a particular order to watch the films in. 


1. Race and Cultural Differences 

• Remember the Titans (2000)
• Freedom Writers (2007)
• Crash (2005)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
• American Violet (2008) 
• Rosewood (1997)
• Incident At Oglala (1992)
• Stand and Deliver (1988)
• Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)
• Arranged (2007)
• Walkout (2006)
• Quinceañera (2006)

2. Mental Illness and Disabilities

• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• Temple Grandin (2010)
• Adam (2009)
• I am Sam (2001)
• The Soloist (2009)
• Benny and Joon (1993)
• Prozac Nation (2001)
• It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999) 
• A Brilliant Madness (2002)

3. The LGBT Community

• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• Milk (2008)
• Boys Don't Cry (1999)
• The Celluloid Closet (1995)
• The Kids Are All Right (2010)
• Transamerica (2005)
• Soldier's Girl (2003)

4. Issues Relating to Women

• The Invisible War (2012)
• Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
• Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• The Accused (1988)
• North Country (2005)
• Lake of Fire (2006)