School Movies

Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.

ERPI Films was one of the largest producers of educational films in the 1930's. They were a division of Western Electric, the manufacturing and...

Five schoolkids take on the treacherous task of exploring The Abandoned School.

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...

Devastation of a Welsh-speaking community: Capel Celyn village and farms of the Tryweryn Valley disappear beneath the waters of a reservoir so...

A semi-dramatized documentary about the first Slovak grammar school in Revúca.

Timofey hates September 1st—the pressure to study, the chaos of school, and everyone’s fake cheerfulness. But when he finds a mysterious...

Apip, a teenage cinephile, is forced to go to school in an Islamic boarding school by his mother for being "too free." In his final year, he...

Jared, being the brightest student in the class, struggles to live up to expectations set upon him by his family and the people around him. Crushed...

This short film from 1958 compiles 3 short reportages on different ways kids are schooled in remote areas. To School by Boat follows children of...

Lily is a young girl, who appears to be introverted, melancholy and timid. She couldn't decide where she should stay during the summer vacation of...

Four students skip class by pretending to go to the toilet, but are caught hanging out at the canteen and punished. The next day, they repeat the...

Why do we cheat in class? Why do they let us? In this short documentary we interview a class of high school students and study their motives behind...