Movies: Education

Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but after Carmela suffers an accident, things get complicated…...

An analysis of the logics of modern schooling and the way of understanding education, while showing different, non-conventional educational experiences that raise the need for a new educational paradigm....

Can one day shape the rest of your life? A feature documentary on the South-Korean education system....

Being and Becoming explore the choice not to school ones children, to trust them and to let them learn freely what they are passionate about. Through four countries, the US, Germany (where it's illegal not to go to school), France and the UK, the fil...

At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result ...

Finland’s education system has consistently ranked among the best in the world for more than a decade. The puzzle is, why Finland? Documentary filmmaker, Bob Compton, along with Harvard researcher, Dr. Tony Wagner, decided to find out. The result of ...

Intimately following 1st and 6th graders at a public elementary school in Tokyo, we observe kids learning the traits necessary to become part of Japanese society....

The students of a local school unite in mutiny against their headmaster and two teachers....

A character-driven heartfelt story of resilience and the impact of education. The film follows Angel, Moses and Nina from the slums of Kampala, Uganda through a world tour with the Grammy-nominated African Children's Choir; stunningly shot and told t...

Morgan Spurlock tours the Middle East to discuss the war on terror with Arabic people....

Bomba the jungle boy swings into action when an elephant herd is threatened by ivory hunters....

Jia Tianxiong (Li Nanxing) is a gambler and addicted to drinking. He was asked to do a mission to spy on someone and disguised himself as a teacher in SCP school. He met Zeng Kaixin (Bonnie Loo), a teacher in the school. But, on Kaixin's birthday, he...

Little Johnny Jones, to be born in the next year, is shown growing to a ripe, healthy old age, thanks to the efforts of his local public health officers. But without them, he might be one of the 5% or so that dies in the first year. The price for the...

Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team....

When an eight year old kid, Ningning, had a pink chick who fulfilled the love she has been longing for from her sister, she once again experienced the joy of her childhood. However, it was cut short when the pink chick suddenly vanished. This has lea...

A documentary feature film which aims to expand the usually one-sided conversation between students and teachers. During its runtime, raw experiences heard from all sides of the conversation are laid bare during its 77 minute runtime. From all of the...

Documentary warning about the decline of American public schools as they become more and more privatized....

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town...

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Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children Must Learn suggests that better schooling, especially in agricultural techniques, would bring improvement...