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Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
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Beyond the Blackboard
Film · 2011 · also dramaInspired 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...
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The Long Game
Film · 2024 · also dramaIn 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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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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Peaceful Warrior
Film · 2006 · also dramaA chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
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The Wave
Film · 1981 · also dramaA teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi G...
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Good Will Hunting
Film · 1997 · also dramaWill Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology profess...
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The Browning Version
Film · 1994 · also dramaAndrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire fo...
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A Child Is Waiting
Film · 1963 · also dramaDr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, join...
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The Barefoot Contessa
Film · 1954 · also dramaA washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director...
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To Sir, with Love
Film · 1967 · also dramaA British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention an...
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