Education Movies

Winner of the New York LOVES Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Filmed over the course of nine years, Zoned In traces the remarkable...

A character-driven heartfelt story of resilience and the impact of education. The film follows Angel, Moses and Nina from the slums of Kampala,...

This documentary depicts a vivid example of America's current culture war. It shows a rural community, Philomath, Oregon, that is making a large...

Fourteen-year-old Roman Nowak, who becomes an orphan. Though his mother raised him alone, she provided him with a warm, happy home. After her death,...

Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes far beyond the classroom as the students discover the differences...

In Ethiopia, in a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. But one of the pupils, Tiya, is distracted, she...

William Vennard's collaboration with Janwillem van den Berg resulted in his film Voice Production: the Vibrating Larynx. Winning several awards,...

13-year-old Khodor is a child whose family tries to issue him an ID document that proves his existence and gives him the right to education,...

In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...

The film graphically calls attention to the brutal dangers of playing on top of elevators in public housing high-rise 30-story buildings in New York...

AWA is a young French woman originally from Senegal. She is a law student who practices football regularly with her neighbor friends. But his passion...

The documentary follows the orchestra classes of Fougères and Garges-Lès-Gonesse throughout the 2019-2020 school year in their daily...

Rahiem Shabazz continues the conscience-raising dialogue generated by his acclaimed documentary Elementary Genocide: The School To Prison Pipeline...

When one thinks of the American Deep South, the image of veiled Muslim students strolling the University of Alabama campus is the last thing that...

David has several problems. At a very young age, he sees his father become addicted to drugs and his mother to alcohol. His parents divorce because...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decolonization looks like in Norway House, one of...

Jia Tianxiong (Li Nanxing) is a gambler and addicted to drinking. He was asked to do a mission to spy on someone and disguised himself as a teacher...