Movies and TvShows featuring "education-system" theme.
The Wire is a compelling and realistic portrayal of the fight against crime in Baltimore. It delves into the complex world of drug trafficking, police department politics, and urban decay. The show follows the lives of various characters, including police officers, drug dealers, and everyday citizens, showing how their lives intersect and the impact of their actions on the city.
Narcisa, a novice nun with supernatural powers, joins a school for girls in post-war Spain. As she teaches, she encounters strange and disturbing events that lead her to uncover the dark secrets and haunting presence of the convent.
The story of two warring coaching institutes, and the consequences of their rivalry on the students who come there to study. A journey of friendship, first love, heartbreak, peer pressure and the loss of innocence of youth.
Porterhouse Blue is a hilarious TV show based on a novel that satirizes the education system of a prestigious college in Cambridge. The series follows the adventures of a young man who gets entangled in an older woman-younger man relationship, amongst other intriguing and comical events.
A group of high school students, each with their own personal reasons for wanting to improve their test scores, come together to devise a plan to steal the answers to a standardized test. As they navigate through various challenges and obstacles, they learn important lessons about friendship, ambition, and the flaws in the education system.
Educating … is a British documentary television programme produced by Twofour for Channel 4 that has run since 2011. It uses a fly on the wall format to show the everyday lives of the staff and students of various secondary schools around the UK; interspersed with interviews of those involved and featuring narration from the director and interviewer, David Clews. Filmed on location at schools in Harlow, Dewsbury, Walthamstow, Cardiff and Salford respectively, there have been six series to date: Educating Essex (2011), Educating Yorkshire (2013), Educating the East End (2014), Educating Cardiff (2015) and Educating Greater Manchester 1 & 2 (2017 and 2020).
An intimate look inside the highs and lows of year one at LeBron James’ I Promise School, serving the most at-risk students and families in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.
He Named Me Malala is a documentary film that tells the story of Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for advocating for girls' education. Despite the attack, Malala survived and continued to fight for the right to education. She went on to become the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.
Sivaji, a software systems architect, returns to India and tries to bring about a change in the corrupt political system. He faces numerous challenges and risks to expose the black money and reform the education system.
In 'Won't Back Down', a strong-willed mother and a dedicated teacher unite to transform a failing public school. Set in an inner-city neighborhood, they face challenges such as bureaucracy and resistance from teachers' unions. The film showcases the hardships and triumphs of their fight for a better education for their children.
Raj and Mita, a couple from Chandni Chowk, want to ensure that their daughter Pia gets the best education available. They decide to move to a posh neighborhood in Delhi where they face several challenges in adapting to the new lifestyle and educational system.
The Education of Little Tree is a heartwarming movie about a young boy named Little Tree who is raised by his Cherokee grandfather in the Great Depression. Little Tree faces challenges like racism, loss of family members, and the hardships of the education system. Through it all, he learns important life lessons about love, resilience, and the beauty of nature.
Neds follows the story of a young boy named John McGill as he navigates his way through the turbulent streets of a working-class neighborhood in Scotland. Dealing with an abusive father, bullying at school, and the lure of joining a gang, John must confront his own fate and find a way to break free from the cycle of violence and despair.
Stolen Education is a documentary that tells the story of the Mexican-American students who fought for equal education in 1950s Texas. Focusing on a landmark court case and the racial segregation and discrimination they faced, the film explores the triumphs and defeats of the fight for desegregation.
An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.
A physics teacher at a corporate educational institution, who aims to lessen the stress on students, at loggerheads with an ambitious educationalist who wants his students to secure top ranks at any cost so that he can gain monopoly in corporate education.
Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance policies are used to justify suspension and arrests that set up a pathway to send children of color and children with special needs from school to prison. Children are being suspended, restrained, dragged, physically manhandled, and subsequently arrested for minor offenses such as throwing candy on a school bus. These personal accounts from people affected by the school-to-prison pipeline give riveting tales about the generational impact on society.
The story of a group of people who are making a film about life in high school in the 1950's.
After his sister’s dreams are shattered, an angry youngster takes on fraudsters who have commercialised the education sector for their selfish needs.