Our response is that like physicians, teachers and parents should first do no harm. Children are harmed when trusted adults tell them by word or by example that viewing the infliction of pain as entertainment is acceptable. Showing a violent film is the easy way out. Parents and teachers should use their creativity to find other ways to teach the same lessons. Few of the recommended movies contain any graphic violence.
None contain violence intended to thrill the audience.
In each film the violence has met the standards described above. Our society suffers from a degradation of standards and an increase in violence. These trends will only be reversed when adults maintain standards for children and demonstrate by their actions that violence is unacceptable. Parents and teachers need to encourage higher order thinking which explores the complexity and subtlety of human behavior without being bludgeoned and shock thrilled into paying attention for a short while. Films with unnecessary brutality placed there for the thrill should simply not be shown by adults to children.