Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018), King Corn (2007), Sister (2012), State of the Union (2019), Promises (2001), Sound and Fury (2000), Up the Yangtze (2007), What Is Democracy? (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Education movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, education, kindness, social impact, american history, personal growth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two recent college graduates travel to Iowa to investigate the role that corn plays in an increasingly complicated and dysfunctional American food industry. After planting their own small crop of corn and tracing its journey through the industry, they are alarmed to discover that corn figures in almost everything Americans eat. The consequences of this are examined through interviews with various experts and industry insiders, providing a balanced look at this American agricultural issue.
Plot Keywords: documentary, agriculture, health, sustainability, environment, economy, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A poor boy (Kacey Mottet Klein) steals from wealthy patrons at a posh ski resort to support himself and his irresponsible older sister (Léa Seydoux).
Plot Keywords: drama, family, coming of age, sisters, family bond, social issues, children ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A recently estranged couple meet in a pub before their weekly marital therapy sessions.
Plot Keywords: politics, usa, government, policy, immigration, economy, national security ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rather than focusing on political events, the seven children featured in "Promises" offer a compelling human portrait of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. The film draws viewers into the hearts and minds of Jerusalem's children by giving voice to those captured by the region's hatreds as well as those able to transcend them. Audiences will engage with Palestinian and Israeli kids, coming to know them as multi-dimensional people, not as stereotypes perpetuated by the mainstream media.
Plot Keywords: documentary, conflict, children, peace, war, jewish, dialogue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cousins Heather and Peter Artinian -- ages 6 and almost 2, respectively -- are deaf. Their condition could be changed by a cochlear implant, a device that stimulates hearing. The benefits are obvious, but this documentary focuses on why the children's families face a tough decision. There are concerns about how the device will change the recipient's relationship with deaf culture and whether there can ever be a true connection between those who hear sounds and those who hear only silence.
Plot Keywords: documentary, usa, family, cultural conflict, medical ethics, social issues, controversy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary examine China's rapidly changing economy by focusing on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. For the government, the dam stands as a symbol of progress; but it displaces hundreds of families during its creation. Following local teenagers Chen Bo Yu and Yu Shi, who work on one of the Western cruise lines that sails up the Yangtze near the dam, the film details the friction in Chinese society as its citizens struggle with the realities of its new consumer capitalism.
Plot Keywords: documentary, china, displacement, social change, modernization, poverty, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This reflection on democracy spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens' groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy.
Plot Keywords: democracy, politics, society, philosophy, history, government, freedom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The leader of a small ultra-orthodox community in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Abraham Edelman (Assi Dayan) is absolutely inflexible about doctrine. It's a trait that has won him no shortage of respect from his peers, but it's beginning to cause conflict with his son (Ilan Griff). Little Menahem has a growing fascination with the natural world, and simply can't understand why his father must shoo a mother bird from her nest, or insist that dogs have no souls.
Plot Keywords: family, faith, conflict, father-son relationship, religious extremism, tradition, modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety about sending her eldest son out into the world on his own.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, coming of age, motherhood, separation, adolescence, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary, directed by a survivor of the genocide, chronicles the systematized murder perpetuated by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, specifically the torture and killing of the educated classes in the notorious S-21 prison, which is now a museum. But this film is not about statistics and generalized history. Instead, it focuses on two survivors who return to the prison, coming face-to-face with some of the guards who insist that they were only following bureaucratic orders.
Plot Keywords: documentary, genocide, history, war crimes, survivors, prison, torture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anna must deal with losing her privileges when her well-off parents become leftist activists.
Plot Keywords: politics, family, coming of age, revolution, france, child's perspective, ideology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This U.K.-produced HBO documentary covers the spread of AIDS in South Africa, focusing on an orphanage called Agape, founded by one "Grandma" Zodwa Mqadi. The story centers on the local children's choir as they rehearse for a trip to England, and follows the Moya family as they struggle with the disease, which has plagued the region. Notable names such as Lorraine Bracco, Alicia Keys, Paul Simon and Kanye West appear as themselves to help carry the narrative along.
Plot Keywords: music, documentary, south africa, choir, orphans, hope, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Throughout the world, the circus is an old-fashioned form of entertainment that's slowly fading away, and in Mexico, the situation is no different. The Ponces, captained by lead manager and ringmaster Tino, struggle to bring in the crowds and keep their generations-old family business going strong. Compounding this challenge is a weakened economy, particularly in the rural areas where the Ponces pitch their big tent. The soundtrack is enlivened by the music of country-rock band Calexico.
Plot Keywords: documentary, family, circus, mexico, traditional culture, poverty, struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teenager struggles to transcend the limitations of his upper middle-class life.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social class, coming of age, teenager, class conflict, identity ...
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