This episode, dealing with gender issues in education (and specifically mathematics) was first aired in April, 2006. Lisa Simpson's high school is divided in two: one school for the boys, and one for the girls. The boys' school has "real math" while the girls' school has mathematics courses that tackle things like "How do you feel about math?" Lisa loves mathematics and decides to disguise herself as a boy so that she can attend the class with the boys, and ends up winning an award for best student. The episode has some nice math-related scenes, two of which involve the formula for the volume of a sphere and the common student error of forgetting the negative solution to y^2 = 25 (www.simpsonsmath.com)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ("The Musgrave Ritual")
This episode of the Grenada-television produced series includes a scene where Holmes uses similar right triangles, ratios, and proportions to determine the location of a point on the ground corresponding to a map description.
You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx
This classic quiz show gave Groucho the opportunity to interview guests who then played the game to win cash. One of the episodes has a couple trying to win the grand prize at the end of the game by answering the question "What do you call the long side of a right triangle?" Their answer: "Hypothesis." Groucho's response: "Close enough." Priceless!!!!
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Number System Analogy)
This wonderful small film introduces us to Smilla, a native of Greenland who longs to return to her homeland. She says that mathematics is one of the only things in the world that makes her happy. In one scene she compares our number system to the stages of human development. (www.imdb.com/title/tt120152/)
Northern Exposure ("Nobody's Perfect")
Northern Exposure was a quirky, offbeat series that starred Rob Lowe as a doctor in Alaska who fancies himself as a ladies' man. In this episode he falls for a mathematician who is researching the digits of pi. They look into each others' eyes, and are starstruck as they discuss its irrationality. (www.joyofpi.com)
The Da Vinci Code
The Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio are important themes running through the plot of this well-known novel and movie. In one scene, Langdon and Sophie guess correctly that the ten-digit password to a safe deposit box is her grandfather's sequence, the famous 1123581321. (www.sonypictures.com/home.thedavincicode/index.html)
A Wrinkle in Time
A short scene in this movie shows the young Charles Wallace correctly identifying a "floating-in-the-air" sequence of numbers as the Fibonacci Sequence.