Movies about Teaching:
*Conrack. 1974. *
Based on Pat Conroy’s The Water is Wide. Gentle moving story about a white school teacher who works with a group of African-American youngsters off the coast of South Carolina.
*Dangerous Minds. 1995. *
Based on an incredible true life story of a first-time high school teacher assigned to a class of tough, but intelligent, inner-city students.
*Dead Poets Society. 1989.*
English teacher at a boy’s school inspires a love for literature and life in his students.
*Lean on Me. 1989. *
A true story about a high school principal brought in as a last hope for the salvation of Eastside High School in Paterson, N.J.
*Mr. Holland’s Opus. 1995. *
A passionate musician reluctantly accepts a position as a high school music teacher, only to come to the realization that teaching is his true passion.
*Music of the Heart. 1999.*
True story of one music teacher's efforts to create a violin program in a New York City school.
*October Sky. 1999. *
Teacher inspires student from coal mining town o follow his passion for rocket building.
*Stand and Deliver. 1987.*
Inspiring true story of Jaime Escalante's success in teaching calculus in inner-city Los Angeles.
*To Sir with Love. 1967. *
Also based on a true story, about a black teacher's first year of teaching in an impoverished London neighborhood.
*Up the Down Staircase. 1967*.
Film based on Bel Kaufman's perceptive best-selling novel about the experiences of a young teacher in a New York City high school.
*Finding Forrester. 2000. *
A young Black inner-city student befriends a recluse writer who then helps him survive his move to an elite private school.
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