Suggested Movies
- Stand and Deliver (1988)
- by Ramon Menendez
- A dedicated teacher inspires his dropout prone students to learn calculus to build up their self-esteem and do so well that they are accused of cheating.
- Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
- by Gurinder Chadha
- The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism by running off to Germany with a football team (soccer in America).
- School Ties (1992)
- by Robert Mandel
- A Jewish boy goes to an elite prep school in the 1950's and hides his religion until a jealous bigot forces it out in the open.
- But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
- by Jamie Babbit
- A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
- The Heart of the Game (2005)
- by Ward Serrill
- A documentary Roosevelt Roughriders, a girls' high-school basketball team in Seattle, and one player's fight to regain her eligibility to play.
- Election (1999)
- by Alexander Payne
- A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections.
- Blackboard Jungle (1955)
- by Richard Brooks
- A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
- The Miracle Worker (1962)
- by Aurthur Penn
- The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- by Robert Muliigan
- Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.
- Quiz Show (1994)
- by Robert Redford
- Dick Goodwin discovers game shows are fixed: pretty boy WASP Charles Van Doren is fed answers so he beats geeky Jew Herbie Stempel.
- October Sky (1999)
- by Joe Johnston
- The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
- Dead Poets Society (1989)
- by Peter Weir
- English professor John Keating inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day.
- Mr. Holland's Opus
- by Stephen Herek
- Glenn Holland is an aspiring composer who takes a teaching job to support his family. As the years unfold, the joy of sharing his passion for music with his students becomes his new defintion of success.
- Akeelah and the Bee
- by Doug Atchinson
- A precocious eleven-year-old girl, Akeelah Anderson, from south Los Angeles, is discovered to have a talent for words. In spite of the objections of her mother Wanda, Akeelah enters a spelling contest. Her gift takes her to compete in the National Spelling Bee, the most famous competition of its kind in the world.
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