Up the Down Staircase (1967), The Class (2008), Meetings With Remarkable Men (1979), Paper Clips (2004), Words of My Perfect Teacher (2003), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), Bright Road (1953), Renaissance Man (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Teaching movies.
Storyline: On her first day at Calvin Coolidge High, fledgling teacher Sylvia Barrett (Sandy Dennis) encounters an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students, bright underachiever Joe and sensitive Alice. When Alice's crush on a male teacher (Patrick Bedford) leads her to attempt suicide, Sylvia questions her ability to help the disadvantaged teens.
Plot Keywords: education, teacher, school, students, challenges, idealism, reality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Teacher François Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school year teaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. The teachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both the good and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire their students, but each teacher is an individual who will do things in his or her own way to achieve the results they desire. They also have differing viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praise and discipline them. The administration of the school tries to be as fair as possible, which includes having student representatives sit on the student evaluation committee. Marin's class this year of fourteen and fifteen year olds is no different than previous years, although the names and faces have changed. Marin tries to get through to his students, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utter failure. Even Marin has his breaking point, which may result in him doing things he would ...
Plot Keywords: education, school, teacher, students, cultural conflict, immigration, multiculturalism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of G.I. Gurdjieff and his travels to achieve enlightenment and inner growth. Beginning with his childhood, the movie follows his journeys through Central Asia as he discovers new levels of spirituality through music, dance and near-encounters with death.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: biography, philosophy, religion, quest, wisdom, teacher, growth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Students at a middle school in rural Tennessee collect paper clips to represent victims of the Holocaust.
Plot Keywords: documentary, holocaust, education, history, world war ii, jewish, memory ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A filmmaker sets out make a film sbout her Tibetan Buddhist teacher, meets all kinds of interesting people who tell their version of what suffering is. Things aren't as much fun as she thought it was going to be. But she learns a lot about herself in the meantime.—ggn
Plot Keywords: drama, documentary, spiritual growth, wisdom, life philosophy, faith, spiritual journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Arthur Chipping (Peter O'Toole) is an academic teaching at Brookfield Boys School outside of London in the 1920's. Although he does what he considers best for his students, they don't much like him, nicknaming him "Ditchy", short for "dull as ditch water". His life changes when he meets Katherine Bridges (Petula Clark), a music hall actress and a woman with a questionable past. She affectionately calls him Mr. Chips. Despite their differences, they fall in love. He, in particular, realizes that in striking up a relationship, they will have many obstacles to overcome. He doesn't particularly like the world in which she is involved, including her friends and her profession, and she doesn't exactly fit the mold of a teacher's wife. Still, they decide to get married. She forgoes her career to be Mrs. Chips, living on campus as the housewife of a teacher at a proper boy's school. It is a world in which she will have to learn the rules, or at least bend them to her sensibilities, although she vows never to embarrass him. Katherine's arrival at Brookfield may change Chips' standing at the school. Further changes ensue for the Chips and Brookfield with the on-set of World War II.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, romance, school, teacher, coming of age, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies' Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year's Christopher award. The story was written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a 4th generation schoolteacher from the British West Indies. Jane Richards, a young 4th grade teacher in the South, faces a challenge in the form of 11 year-old C.T. Young, a backward boy, whose pride has made him a stubborn rebel and liar. Jane believes in him, then discovers his interest in nature when he spends his time watching a caterpillar in a tree trunk as it develops a cocoon. C. T.'s devoted to his family and especially to Tanya, who adores him. When Tanya dies, despite Dr. Mitchell's efforts to save her, the embittered C.T. stays away from school; when he returns, he gets into a fight and gets sent to Coventry. But when a swarm of bees invades the classroom and panics the students, C.T. takes charge, captures the queen bee, and leads the swarm outside, earning the school principal's praise. But C.T. has urgent business: the cocoon's splitting and a butterfly's ready to emerge. He had meant it for Tanya, but he now presents it to Jane, who calls the other children to watch the unfolding miracle of nature.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, education, teacher, students, rural, inspirational, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A down-on-his-luck businessman desperately takes the only job offered - a teacher in the U.S. Army. His mission: keep a ragtag bunch of underachieving misfits from flunking out of basic training! Be on alert as this unlikely new teacher and his underdog class unexpectedly inspire each other to be all they can be!
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, inspirational, education, military, teacher, students ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Eddie lands his first teaching gig at an inner city middle school, he quickly finds that his highly pubescent pupils are receiving no form of sexual education. Eddie isn't exactly equipped to teach them - he's not exactly experienced romantically. And he's falling in love with the older sister of one of his students. But Eddie goes off lesson plan anyway, delving into the world of menstrual cycles and sexually transmitted infections, and in doing so, incurs the wrath of the local reverend.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, youth, sex education, coming of age, school, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Despite his best intentions, a billionaire has trouble making his beloved girlfriend a priority. He reads his grandfather's journal in the hope that it will provide guidance on how to live his life.
Plot Keywords: faith, family, legacy, love, redemption, growth, struggle ...
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