The Laramie Project (2002), Waiting for Superman (2010), Freedom Writers (2007), Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Godless Girl (1929), The Education of Shelby Knox (2005), Kinsey (2004), Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Education Reform movies.
Storyline: Two young men face murder charges for the beating of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, based on true events, social issues, hate crime, lgbtq+, homosexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.—Sundance Film Festival
Plot Keywords: education, documentary, education reform, poverty, social issues, students, parents ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's 1994 in Long Beach, California. Idealistic Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job, that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, which, two years earlier, implemented a voluntary integration program. For many of the existing teachers, the integration has ruined the school, whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many students who will be lucky to graduate or even be literate. Despite choosing the school on purpose because of its integration program, Erin is unprepared for the nature of her classroom, whose students live by generations of strict moral codes of protecting their own at all cost. Many are in gangs and almost all know somebody that has been killed by gang violence. The Latinos hate the Cambodians who hate the blacks and so on. The only person the students hate more is Ms. Gruwell. It isn't until Erin holds an unsanctioned discussion about a recent drive-by shooting death that she fully begins to ...
Plot Keywords: education, race, social issues, teacher, students, inner city, writing ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school. This is his first teaching assignment, which he needs to support himself and his insecure pregnant wife, Anne. Despite Principle Warnecke's assertions to the contrary, Dadier quickly learns that the rumors of student discipline problems at the school are indeed true. The established teachers at the school try to counsel the newcomers, all inexperienced in such situations, as how best to handle the rowdy students. Regardless, Dadier tries to exert discipline in his class, which provokes a violent response. Dadier believes the student leaders against him are Artie West, but more specifically Gregory Miller, who he thinks uses the fact of being black as a means of racial provocation. Dadier has to decide either to leave and teach at a "real" school, or stay and figure out how to get through to his students. If he decides to stay, he has to figure out who the real disruptive influences are, especially as they have resorted to attacks of a personal nature that affect especially Anne.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: education, teacher, social issues, race relations, violence, 1950s, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, crime film, moral dilemma, religious conflict, american film, 1920s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 15-year-old girl's transformation from conservative Southern Baptist to liberal Christian and ardent feminist parallels her fight for sex education and gay rights in Lubbock, Texas.
Plot Keywords: documentary, lgbtq+, sex education, activism, teenager, religion, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Called Prok as an adult (short for Professor Kinsey), Alfred Kinsey has been interested in biology since he was a child growing up in the early twentieth century, despite the criticisms of such being evil nonsense from his overbearing and devoutly Christian father, professor Alfred Seguine Kinsey. Prok goes on to become a biology professor at Indiana University, initially focusing on the study of gall wasps. But those studies in combination with questions from his students, coming to terms with the needs of sex with his own wife, a former student of his named Clara McMillen (who he calls Mac), and what he sees as the gross misinformation on the subject currently within popular belief makes him change his focus to human sexuality. Many of those gross untruths - as he sees them - are that oral sex and masturbation cause a slew of maladies, which are perpetuated by what is presented in the university's hygiene class taught by Professor Thurman Rice. With the approval of faculty head ...
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, research, controversy, social impact, science ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements.
Plot Keywords: political documentary, american politics, social commentary, democracy, gun violence, corruption, media ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary that questions the cost -- and value -- of higher education in the United States.
Plot Keywords: documentary, education, education reform, social issues, financial pressure, critique, campus life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Norman and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Norman takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, black and white, 1950s, school setting, social satire, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.
Plot Keywords: education, social issues, single mother, education reform, struggle, racial issues, based on true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After being rejected from every college he applied, Bartleby Gaines decided to create a fictitious university, South Harmon Institute of Technology, with his friends, to fool their parents. But when their deception works too well and every other college rejects starts to apply to his school, B. must find a way to give the education and future his students and friends deserves, including his own, while trying to win the heart of the girl next door.
Plot Keywords: comedy, youth, campus, rebellion, education system, prank, friendship ...
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