Education Movies

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.

A movie about an Eagle who likes to watch kids through windows and talk about gun safety. The Eddie Eagle GunSafe® program is a gun accident preventio...

Here is a school that has never expelled a single student, believing in its children even after betrayal and betrayal after betrayal! Yoji (Yoichi Sas...

In rural Nepal, Bishnumaya Gurung, 48 and Palhamu Sherpa, 66 go to primary school everyday and make space for learning in their lives as single women.

In “Mr. Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life”, Mr. Tompkins learns about biology. In a wild and entertaining dream, his creator, author George Gamow, sen...

Asela, a young teacher comes to the Hatagala Elementary School situated in a remote rural village. In a short period of time, he is able to create a n...

Aliko & Ambai is a feature film about two young women facing the challenges of growing up in the beautiful Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The...

This documentary film asks whether a citizens' experiment, the CSA (Community-supported Agriculture),developing new partnership models between consum...

Every year, around 3000 Indigenous students receive scholarships to attend some of Australia’s most prestigious boarding schools. It is an immense opp...

This documentary depicts a vivid example of America's current culture war. It shows a rural community, Philomath, Oregon, that is making a large trans...

Sari is a high school principal with high standards but no idea of what to do with them. In the teachers' lounge her nitpicky style hasn't won her pop...

Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and special school: Karihwanoron. It is a Mohawk immersion...

If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Governmen...

The story is set in 1962, the time of Sino-India war. It revolves around a widowed teacher named Ritu who is transferred to Koronga, a small Assamese...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decolonization looks like in Norway House, one of Manitoba's...

Jia Tianxiong (Li Nanxing) is a gambler and addicted to drinking. He was asked to do a mission to spy on someone and disguised himself as a teacher in...

A couple is running down the stairs of Montmartre. Sophie’s moving that way because she really wants to pee, her boyfriend is teasing her. They go int...

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were wo...

In May 2014, just months after Dan died, the DSM Foundation commissioned award-winning playwright Mark Wheeller to write a verbatim play that told his...