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From Accident to Love & Basketball.
Children Will Listen, available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Children-Will-Listen-Charlene-Gilbert/dp/B0006UEVGS/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1440036035&sr=1-1&keywords=children+will+listen.
About 140 students in 7 Washington DC public schools who put on a production of Into the Woods, as part of Sondheim retrospective. The students work on all aspects of production. Highly recommended.
From Accident to Love & Basketball.
Children Will Listen, available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Children-Will-Listen-Charlene-Gilbert/dp/B0006UEVGS/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1440036035&sr=1-1&keywords=children+will+listen.
About 140 students in 7 Washington DC public schools who put on a production of Into the Woods, as part of Sondheim retrospective. The students work on all aspects of production. Highly recommended.
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- DirectorMichael DavisStarsJoshua SchaeferKeri RussellRD RobbPeter, a love-struck teenager, decides to win the heart of his beautiful neighbor, Erica, who has placed him in the friend-zone. He believes that the only way to do this is through a grand romantic gesture, so he resolves to camp out on her front lawn every day for the entire summer until she falls for him.The summer before college.
- DirectorEla ThierStarsNoa RotsteinDalena LeGuy SageeFrom different worlds, Ellie and Thuy form a powerful bond that helps Ellie cope with the hardships of adjusting to her new life in the states.Two 12 year old students, one newly arrived from Israel, another who grew up in Vietnam. 1980s American school.
- DirectorMasahiro TakadaStarsShô SakuraiYû AoiYûsuke IseyaThe lives of four art students change forever when gifted young artist Hagumi arrives at their school and befriends their group as each student experiences turbulence in love.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsPhilippe TorretonMaria PitarresiNadia KaciA teacher from a small, depressed town is trying to do something useful.Nursery school in Northern France.
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsAhidjo Mahamat MoussaHamza Moctar AguidZara HarounTahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.
- DirectorDeborah NovakIn 1970, the Marshall University football team, athletic staff and fans were killed in a plane crash. This documentary captures the heroism that overcame that tragedy, in the most inspirational story of college sports ever.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsDirk BogardeStanley BakerJacqueline SassardAt Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.
- DirectorJulie TaymorStarsEvan Rachel WoodJim SturgessJoe AndersonThe music of The Beatles, New York in the 1960s, and the American youth's actions to protest the Vietnam War, form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.
- DirectorPhil JoanouStarsAlexisAshtynBrandonUS take on the classic UK documentary series "Up". This first US entry follows a group of economically, racially and socially diverse 7-year-olds. The idea was to make followup films on them every 7 years but the project ended in 2006.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsWallace BeeryLionel BarrymoreAline MacMahonStory of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.
- DirectorDoug AtchisonStarsAngela BassettLaurence FishburneKeke PalmerAkeelah, a young gifted girl, comes from a dysfunctional family and is on the verge of quitting school. She discovers that she has a high aptitude for spellings and enters a spelling bee contest.UCLA English professor coaches Akeelah.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsSemka Sokolovic-BertokBogdan DiklicSnezana NiksicThe staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.Elementary school staff prepare a retirement party.
Yugoslavia. - DirectorGeorge LucasStarsRichard DreyfussRon HowardPaul Le MatA group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals.
- StarsMegan FollowsColleen DewhurstMarilyn LightstoneAnne Shirley accepts a teaching position at a girls boarding school in a town dominated by a rich and belligerant family determined to make her life miserable.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsGaspard ManesseRaphael FejtöFrancine RacetteA French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
- DirectorMichael PatreiStarsMarion Barry Jr.Chuck BrownLewis FranklinBallou , a documentary film, follows the talented Washington, DC, Ballou Senior High School Marching Band, as they overcome their negative environment filled with guns, drugs, and violence, and uplift the community with music, dedication, and personal sacrifice. This Washington, DC, High School Marching Band--from an impoverished community just 3 miles away from the US Capitol building--is on its way to the national band competition. They are a family with heart and soul that use hard work, discipline, and compassion to overcome all obstacles. Political leaders and celebrities including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Gen (ret) Colin Powell, Congressman John Lewis, Marion Barry, Denyce Graves, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and Chuck Brown are featured in the film to show the importance of a small marching band in the lives the band members and in the community.High school marching band.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckOscar HomolkaA group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.7 professors who live together on campus study slang language.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsClint EastwoodGeraldine PageElizabeth HartmanWhile recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsBing CrosbyIngrid BergmanHenry TraversAt a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsAlastair SimJoyce GrenfellGeorge ColeThe schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books; as they try to get rich quick, they are abetted by the headmistress' brother.St. Trinian's school for young ladies.
- DirectorJeff BlecknerStarsEmily VanCampSteve TalleyTimothy BusfieldA 24-year-old first-time teacher overcomes her initial fears and prejudices and makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter's makeshift classroom.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsGlenn FordAnne FrancisLouis CalhernA new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
- DirectorSamira MakhmalbafStarsSaid MohamadiBehnaz JafariBahman GhobadiKurdish teachers Said and Reeboir roam Iranian villages near Iraqi border during war. Said guides displaced men, marries widow Halaleh. Reeboir joins child smugglers. Amid danger, they try teaching nomadic students while soldiers patrol.Iranian Kurdistan teachers.
- DirectorKaren MoncrieffStarsDavid StrathairnAgnes BrucknerMargaret ColinA troubled young woman is encouraged by a teacher to enter a poetry contest.
- DirectorKatie DellamaggioreStarsRochelle BallantyneOghenakpobo EfekoroPatrick JohnstonAmidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school's champion chess team.