School Movies

After losing his job on the first day of school, an idealistic teacher attempts to get rehired by locking his students in the classroom and forcing...

In this first project of Kim Longinotto while she was a student at Englands National School of Television and Film she filmed the daily life in a...

After World War II, more than 85% of the Albanian people were illiterate. Partisan soldier Dritan Shkaba is tasked with opening new schools in north...

A shy, nerdy high school student named Clarence is secretly in love with the most popular girl in school, Lucy, who is dating the school's biggest...

What does it mean to belong to a place, a country? In a south Tel Aviv elementary school, that question is addressed head-on by a fourth-grade class...

Why do we cheat in class? Why do they let us? In this short documentary we interview a class of high school students and study their motives behind...

A picture of the ceremonial opening of the new school year.

One year in the life of a Turkish teacher, teaching the Turkish language to Kurdish children in a remote village in Turkey. The children can't speak...

7th graders steal the answers to the big exam to survive the school year and go to their dream high schools.

Angela is a teenager who, despite being certain about her sexuality, doesn't feel confident about showing her feelings to people or even to herself....

Children learn through play in Irish Montessori schools in the 1970s, accompanied by voiceover explaining the Montessori method and jaunty jazz...

The five Royal Schools of Ulster were established by James 1st in 1608. This documentary goes behind the scenes in the year of their 400th aniversary.

Set in the near future, a student accidentally discovers old photographs of the same stretch of beach taken by school students over the past 65...

Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.

After everyone else has left for the weekend, detention and science club students find themselves trapped together, and when a masked gang lays siege...

When two high school seniors find themselves caught in the chaos of final exams, Mr. Levy Mini-Quizzes, and college decisions, one unexpected...

Devastation of a Welsh-speaking community: Capel Celyn village and farms of the Tryweryn Valley disappear beneath the waters of a reservoir so...

In the fall of 2009, a group of college students ventured into the backwoods of Louisiana to find an abandoned school. A place with a history of...