Favorites of MIT’s Early Coeds

 

Books, TV shows, and movies …

 

  Many people noted that they didn't watch TV, and many said they liked so many books and movies that it was difficult to choose just one.

 

Books

Movies

Television

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Alias

A la Recherche du Temps Perdu

A Christmas Carol (the Alistair Sim version)

American Dream

A Voyage for Madmen

A Christmas Story

Anne of Green Gables

Brick Lane

all Krystof Kieslowski's movies

anything on HGTV

Daniel N. Stern, The Present Moment

American Beauty

BBC World News

dracula

An Affair to Remember

CSI

English mysteries

anything from Jon Waters

CSI but I still miss Buffy

Family First

Apollo 13

CSPAN

Goedel Escher Bach

Black Orpheus

Daily  Show

Guns, Germs and Steel

Casablanca

days of our lives

Harry Potter series

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Forensics

Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path by Rudolf Steiner

chicago

Friends

Jane Austin (author)

Citizen Kane

Greatest American Hero

jonathan livinston seagull

Dr. Zhivago (oldie)

Joan of Arcadia

journey through genius

Dumb and Dumber

John Ratzenberger's Across America

King James Version of Bible

Harry Potter

Law & Order

Lord of the Rings

Kurosawa's Seven Samurai

Lost

Marx & Engels The Communist Manifesto

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

M*A*S*H

Memories of missories

Man Without a Face

Movies

Middlemarch

Men in Black

Mystery on PBS

Moneyball

Metropolis

news only, some sports

Jerry Wiesner's memoirs

Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 version)

Newshour with Jim Leher

My Little Blue Dress

Miracle on 34th Street, original version

NFL Football

Pride and Prejudice

Moonstruck

Nova

Sabbath's Theater

Sea Biscuit

NYPD Blue

Stranger in a Strange Land

pirated of the carribean

PBS Masterpiece Theatre

The Bible

 

PBS Mystery

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

Shrek

Monk

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

Splendor in the Grass

scrubs

The Handmaiden's Tale

Stand and Deliver

Seinfeld

The Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Star Wars Episode 4 (the first one)

skating shows

the Oz books

starwars

Star Trek

The Sparrow

State and Main

The Daily Show

The Spiral Staircase - Karen Armstrong

The Aviator

The Sopranos

Til We Have Faces

The Chorus (currently)

West Wing

War and Peace

The Court Jester

 

Winds of War/War and Remembrance

The Gods Must Be Crazy

 

World According to Garp

The Life of Brian

 

 

The Rose

 

 

The Secret of Roan Inish

 

 

Whale Rider

 

 

When Harry Met Sally

 

 

Wind

 

 

Wizard of Oz

 

 

young Frankenstein