The Children Must Learn
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A City Decides (1956)
A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from...
A Touch of Greatness (2005)
In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled America's schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade...
Vincennes, l'université perdue (2016)
Recounts the epic of Vincennes Experimental University Center, from its creation after the events of May 68 until its demolition in the summer of...
First Graders (1996)
A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school...
Being and Becoming (2014)
Being and Becoming explore the choice not to school ones children, to trust them and to let them learn freely what they are passionate about. Through...
Precious Knowledge (2012)
Disenfranchised high school seniors become academic warriors and community leaders in Tucson, Arizona's embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state...
Sticky: A (Self) Love Story (2016)
"Sticky" is everything your mother was too embarrassed to tell you about masturbation, in one stimulating documentary. Full of candid interviews from...
Vocacional: Uma Aventura Humana (2011)
The clash of a libertarian school with the military dictatorship in the 60s. An exciting and little-known page in the history of public education in...
With All Deliberate Speed (2004)
Documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert unearths the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education — where it was...
Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary (1997)
If Proposition 187 makes it through the courts, will hall duty become border patrol in California public schools?...
Through These Eyes (2004)
A 1970s American elementary school program encouraging students to figure out for themselves the universal building blocks of human community —...