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Language
English
Description
At a boarding school for boys in Northern Germany, one student named Kurrat vanishes one night without informing anybody after having had a fight with one of the teachers. Soon, the Police learn of Kurrat's ambivalent, at times rebellious personality and that he was admired by many of his fellow students, jealously despised by some and strongly disliked by a few of the teachers.
Publisher
Teachers Documentary Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This playlist includes the feature documentary and 10min short (filmed at the Center School with Elaine Schwartz, principal) One year in a startlingly upbeat public middle school in New York City where 5th-8th graders are mixed in almost all classes, and somehow it actually works. Featuring unprecedented observational footage and unfiltered commentary from students about the joy and complexity of being 10-14 years old. “A novel and extraordinary...
4) 1982
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon at a Quaker school in the mountains above Beirut, 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her, while his teachers on different sides of the political divide, try to mask their fears.
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Builds on the story of the original film and includes additional interviews and archival footage. Ana Deborah Mola and Belkis Lescaille, who were among the first of the volunteer teachers who laid the groundwork for the revolutionary National Literacy Campaign that would follow, are featured. The 10th anniversary edition DVD, as well as the Digital Site License, includes both films.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A deadly new disease is ravaging the world, turning the populace into mindless zombies, and the number of infected is skyrocketing by the second. As their fellow classmates and teachers succumb to the infection around them, a small group of students at Fujimi High School are fighting for their lives after surviving the initial outbreak. It is up to Takashi Komuro to unite the group of weary survivors and try to escape the horrors that surround them...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the makers of The League of Gentlemen comes an anthology of comedies crammed with dark, claustrophobic humour and unexpected twists. Written by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, Inside No 9 invites you into six very different No 9s, where the ordinary and mundane rub shoulders with the macabre. From a grand country house where a game of 'sardines' leads to some chilling revelations in a wardrobe; to the flat of an apparently...
8) Transport
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 5:43 minutes; camera Sandy D'Annunzio; music Indiran; with Lee Vogt, Amy Greenfield, Chuck Williams, Steven Holly, Joel Polinsky, Don Young, Tom Vint; preserved by Amy Greenfield at WRS Film Lab from camera originals; courtesy of the filmmaker. _Transport_ came out of many influences in the early 1970s: the dead of Vietnam; the poem by my poetry teacher Anne Sexton, _For God While Sleeping_; the post-modern dance experiments...
9) The ComDads
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Français
Description
Christine (Anny Duperey) is distraught when her adolescent son runs away. When the cops are no help, she contacts two former lovers -- François (Pierre Richard), a suicidal teacher, and Jean Lucas (Gérard Depardieu), a burly journalist working on a story about the Mafia. She then convinces them to help find her boy by claiming that she believes one of the men is her son's father. Although they make a poor team, the two set off on a quest to find...
10) Reef School
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Reef School, where every day is an underwater adventure! Join the little Reefies and their teacher Mr. Flip as they discover the extraordinary wonders of an imaginary Australian coral reef.
11) Pride
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The true, inspiring story of Jim Ellis, a charismatic school teacher who changed lives forever when he founded an African-American swim team in one of Philadelphia's roughest neighborhoods.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the cutthroat world of Donkey Kong, only one can rule!A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong. Steve and Billy engage in a cross-country duel to see who could set the high score and become the King of Kong! Along the way, both men learn valuable lessons about what it means to be a father, a husband, and a true champion - discovering that you don't always need to...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the remarkable story of 93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A living monument to the Golden Era of Jazz, having played in both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. He broke racial barriers on American television and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year old blind piano prodigy. Justin, fighting a debilitating case of stage fright, is invited to compete in...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning feature documentary that follows a diverse group of resilient survivors who have overcome commercial sexual exploitation of children and are changing the world by ensuring no child is forgotten. The film was honored at the United States Senate, the United State of Women’s Summit, and the United Nations Association USA encouraging policymakers to create and implement laws and policies to combat trafficking. The film won Best Documentary...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine star in this taut drama of a World War II veteran whose return to his Indiana hometown catalyzes change among people whose failures and frustrations have built up the point of explosion in SOME CAME RUNNING. Dave Hirsh (Sinatra--From Here to Eternity) has faced the horror of war and endured the disillusionment of trying to make a living as a writer. When he returns to Parktown, Indiana, Hirsh...
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
日本語
Description
After a mother discovers that a teacher's bullying is behind her young son's sudden strange behavior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satisfactory answers and with an increasingly distressed child, she furiously escalated her concerns to the school board and the media. But as the story unfolds through the multilayered perspectives of mother, teacher, and child, the real truth gradually emerges and proves...
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A Splash of Love: A Ph.D. student expands her studies to include the whales of the Pacific Northwest. There she meets a whale-watching tour guide and they soon find themselves bonding over more than just Orcas. High Flying Romance: Music teacher Hannah finds unexpected love with Gavin after he and his daughter move back to town and participate in the annual kite festival.
Publisher
Wondrium
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Enter the secret world of great culinarians with two experts, Sean Kahlenberg, Assistant Professor of Culinary Arts at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, New York, and his close friend and co-teacher, Ted Russin, Acting Dean of the CIA's School of Culinary Science and Nutrition. In Cooking Better with Science, let their joint expertise initiate and guide you through the world of leveraging science to cook with greater finesse as...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A bug's life: Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced,...
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