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With unprecedented access, WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS goes inside the very first girls' school in one small Afghan village. Never before have fathers here allowed their daughters to obtain an education. From the school's beginnings in 2009 to the girls' first graduation in 2015, filmmaker Beth Murphy embeds herself in this community for a most-intimate look at what it really means to be a girl growing up in Afghanistan today, and what it takes to change...
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David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he finds and loses love with several women.
7) Private
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Reed Brennan can't believe her good luck when she's accepted to exclusive Easton Academy. Life on campus is an endless parade of cute boys, parties, and special privileges, but nothing at Easton is quite what it seems. With a dangerous romance, shocking discoveries, and dark secrets ahead of her, Reed will be lucky if she survives her first semester.
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Principal Ronald Douche runs Truman High School, a school filled with crazy faculty and out of control students. When one teacher, Mr. Carter, wins Teacher of the Year, other schools fight to steal him from Truman High and he is left with the choice: go where he is actually wanted, or stay where he is so desperately, hilariously needed?
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This acclaimed film follows 14-year-old Sami girl Elle Marja ("Powerful newcomer Lene Cecilia Sparrok." - New York Times), who, along with her sister, is torn from her indigenous reindeer-herding family and placed in a government-run boarding school in 1930s Sweden. There Elle dreams of education and a future, but these dreams are hindered when she is met with racial expectations that class her people as inferior. What follows is a girl's attempt...
10) Let's Get Real
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With amazing courage and candor, students discuss racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and more. From the youth who are targeted, to the students who pick on them, to those who find the courage to intervene, Let's Get Real examines bullying from the full range of perspectives. This poignant film educates audiences of all ages about why we can no longer accept name-calling and bullying...
12) High school high
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A parody in which a teacher from a private school gets a job at a tough public school.
13) The new public
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In fall 2006, former DJ, point guard and teacher turned first-time principal, James O'Brien, opened a small public high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where 1/3 of residents live below the poverty line and the graduation rate is 40%. With infectious optimism, O'Brien and his team of eight undertook an unconventional approach and ambitious mission: Create a school with an arts-oriented curriculum that also emphasizes self-development, community...
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Tyler is a young man who is desperately seeking direction from a world that seems to have abandoned him. Every day at school he fights for survival as he is easy prey among the endless hallways of student predators. Searching for answers, he looks to his friend Indrid, who appears to have it all figured out. Tyler takes Indrid's ideology and adopts it as his own. Not long after, Tyler sees the whole picture more clearly. But is this new vision for...
15) Summer school
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Schools out and Ocean Front High gym teacher Freddy has big plans: summer in Hawaii. But the school's vice-principal is going to have Freddy teach remedial English. The laid-back teacher has a class full of misfits. The no-nonsense history professor down the hall is keeping an eye on all the shenanigans.
16) Fish school
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Peewee loves to attend school each and every day with his favorite teacher, Professor Fishbone! This fun and educational experience is perfect for kids of all ages!
17) Monster zone
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An intelligent fifteen-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimension.
18) Wild child
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After an unruly American teenager is sent to a British boarding school, she continually tries to find ways to be expelled and begins a relationship with the headmistress' son.
19) RWBY: Volume 1
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A young hero, an exalted heiress, a troubled rogue, and a party girl are the four members of RWBY, a team brought together and trained for the sole purpose of combating the rampant evils that plague the fantastic world of Vytal.
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A shy British school master named Mr. Chipping devotes his life to teaching "his boys" after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine. Told via flashbacks, the film features an aged Mr. Chipping looking back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who've touched his life over the years.
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