A Guide for Students Writing Diploma Exams

Film

Not all films studied in grade 12 are effective choices for diploma examination purposes.

Ensure that your choice is one that you have studied in detail and know well. The list below contains both original film presentations and adaptations of written literary works. If you are using the film version of a written text, indicate this choice clearly on the Initial Planning page.

American Beauty
A Beautiful Mind
Big Fish
Braveheart
Chocolat
Crash
Dead Poet’s Society
The English Patient
Finding Forrester
The Fisher King
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Hotel Rwanda
Life is Beautiful
Million Dollar Baby
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Pianist
Pleasantville
Schindler’s List
The Shawshank Redemption
The Truman Show
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?