Movies and TvShows featuring "drivers-education" theme.

Crash Course (1988) is a hilarious comedy movie that follows the story of a high school driving instructor and the various misadventures that occur during his lessons. The film focuses on the relationships between the instructor, a foreign exchange student, and the students' parents, highlighting the challenges they face while trying to navigate the intricacies of driving school. Car crashes, amusing driving lessons, and a father-son relationship add to the comedic chaos.

This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation under direction of Richard Wayman. In the name of promoting safe driving in teenagers, these films became notorious for their gory depiction of accidents to shock their audiences to make their point. The film also covers the role of safety films of this era, their effect on North American teenage culture, the struggle between idealism and lurid exploitation and how they reflected the larger society concerns of the time that adults projected onto their youth.

A look at an American town's efforts to help their children become better drivers.

Jeanne, a high school girl, dumps her dull boyfriend Larry for Nick, a local thug and hot-rodder she finds exciting. Nick terrifies everyone with his dangerous and reckless driving, but that only turns Jeanne on even more. Until one night, zooming around the countryside terrorizing motorists, Nick and Jeanne smash into another car...

The first film in the Red Asphalt driver's education series, presented by the California Highway Patrol, shows graphic accident footage demonstrating the consequences of drunk, reckless and unsafe driving.

This driver’s education film from the early 1970s, "Alcohol and Red Flares", warns viewers of the dangers of drunk driving. It recounts the story of a man named “Mike” who drinks heavily at a party, and insists on driving home. The consequences are steep and along the way, viewers learn about Blood Alcohol Level (also known as BAC or Blood Alcohol Content), techniques police use to verify a driver’s inebriation such as the breathalyzer, and the reasons why driving drunk is so dangerous. This film was produced by legendary social guidance filmmaker Sid Davis in cooperation with the Monterey Park Police Department.

Discusses the mental attitude of automobile drivers. Points out that a driving permit is a privilege which carries the responsibility for respecting the rights of others. Talking driver's license narrates this hymn to the beneficial effects of highways, cars, and driving.

This highway scare film produced by the Highway Safety Foundation in 1971, "Decade of Death", is a retrospective of the organization's 10 years of gory, shocking social guidance films which aimed to promote traffic safety and driver responsibility through the display of bloody and horrific footage of traffic crashes.The Highway Safety Foundation made driver scare films such as "Signal 30," "Mechanized Death," and "Highways of Agony" that intended to encourage drivers to drive responsibly and with consideration of the risks and consequences. It was the organization's belief that crash footage, while horrific, was the best way to convey the importance of driving safely.

Documentary short teaching how to shift and steer.

This mondo/shockumentary is mostly a collection of clips from driver's educational films and has at least one scene lifted from "Faces of Death".

“The Mystery Crash” discusses the dangers of drinking and driving especially as it pertains to the seemingly harmless “social drinker.” This film was produced by Jack Lieb Productions Inc, Chicago and sponsored by the National Safety Council. It is part of a series of films, with each episode describing a different element of driving and road safety.

This color educational film is a driver's safety film about city driving. There is no copyright at the beginning or end of the film so the date of the production appears to be the mid to late 1970s.

Mechanized Death is a documentary short film released in 1961 that aims to raise awareness about the dangers of car accidents. The film showcases actual footage of car crashes and their devastating consequences, highlighting the importance of safe driving and the need for responsible behavior on the road. The film explores the fatal consequences of reckless driving and serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of life.

Documentary short on car crashes.

A traffic accident occurs once every six seconds, most leading to property damage, injury, and/or death. Most of these accidents are preventable, and are caused purely by carelessness, impatience, inattention, and/or recklessness in not following basic driving rules. The basic tenets of driving include knowing the physics of movement, and knowing one's own limitations in a vehicle, which may differ in different road situations.