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Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A frustrated composer comes to realize that his real passion is teaching and that his legacy is not a truly memorable piece of music, but the generations of young people whose lives he affects.
2) Chalk
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow the frenetic and awkwardly painful journey of three novice teachers as they navigate one memorable school year. Provides a teacher's perspective into the absurd, provocative and occasionally volatile world of public education.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius finds a book by Portuguese poet and doctor Amadeu de Prado and his life is irrevocably changed. Determined to learn more about the author, Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon and begins to piece together an epic story of oppression and revolution, loyalty and betrayal, love and jealousy, played out against the backdrop of a brutal fascist dictatorship. In his exploration of Amadeu de Prado's life, Gregorius finds...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
See the stories of four teachers in different areas of the country, revealing the frustrating realities of today's teachers, the difficulty of attracting talented new educators, and why so many of our best teachers leave the profession altogether. Can we re-value teaching and turn it into a prestigious, financially attractive, and desirable profession? With almost half of American teachers leaving the field in the next ten years, now is the time to...
5) Wonder boys
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grady is a 50ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years - not since he wrote his award-winning Great American Novel seven years ago. His college's annual literary festival fills the former wonder boy with self doubt and anxiety.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a vindictive little girl is disciplined in an exclusive girl's school, the child twists an overheard comment into slander. She accuses her teachers of lesbianism and her gullible grandmother spreads the gossip. Outraged, Karen and Martha fight back in court, but a child's lie is hard to disprove.
7) A single man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 645 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the body count rises, Annalise Keating, Frank, Bonnie and the "Keating Five" dive into a docket of daunting new cases. Meanwhile, the shocking discovery of who killed Rebecca leads into the mystery of who shot Annalise. But instead of answers, this stunning development will set the stage for a series of shocking secrets, bitter betrayals and gasp-worthy revelations that will prove beyond all reasonable doubt, that under the right circumstances,...
10) Mr. Topaze
Publisher
Film Movement Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Unwilling to sacrifice his principles, Albert Topaze, a poor but proud French schoolmaster, loses his job after he refuses to alter the failing grades of one of his students. Seizing the opportunity to exploit his well-known honesty, actress Suzy Courtois convinces her lover, the corrupt city councilman Castel Benac, to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his shady businesses. But when Topaze learns he is being used, he cunningly turns the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who pushes and inspires 18 inner-city Hispanic students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015], 2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
It's the story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ultimately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student. Nira discovers that her young student Yoav has an otherworldly talent for language and poetry, and becomes interested in cultivating the boy's gift, but when fascination morphs into obsession; Nira pushes the boundaries of her relationship with the boy and his family in an attempt to protect the purity of his...
14) Submission
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student. When lines are crossed, it becomes unclear who is the victim and who is the victimizer.
15) Our Miss Brooks
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A teacher in a high school tries to date the shy biology teacher while constantly butting heads with the principal and renting a room in someone else's house.
16) Inherit the wind
Language
English
Formats
Description
A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.
17) Enemy
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
18) Topaze
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of dedicated service, Professor Topaze is summarily fired for flunking his worst student, who happens to be the son of the powerful Baron, a wealthy businessman who stands to make a fortune by peddling a worthless health tonic. All the Baron needs is one man with lots of academic credentials and few scruples to endorse his sparkling water.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student, he's the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
20) Happy-go-lucky
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social...
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