Films like Beyond the Blackboard
Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this movie tells the story a brand-new...
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Stand and Deliver
Film · 1988 · also dramaJaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to...
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
Film · 2003 · also dramaBased on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon...
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All Together Now
Film · 2020 · also dramaAn optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
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The Ron Clark Story
Film · 2006 · also dramaPassionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unco...
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The Color of Rain
Film · 2014 · also dramaAfter cancer claims Matt Kell's life on Christmas Day 2005, his widow, Gina and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church communi...
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The Man Without a Face
Film · 1993 · also dramaJustin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy wa...
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Of Mice and Men
Film · 1939 · also dramaAn intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Film · 2019 · also dramaFollows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
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The Outsiders
Film · 1983 · also dramaIn 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy...
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The Long Game
Film · 2024 · also drama and familyIn a segregated Texas, five Mexican-American teenage caddies were prohibited from playing at the country club where they worked. Against all odds, they formed their own t...
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