The Making of Them

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

El guión, basado en el libro homónimo escrito por el periodista y profesor Marco Lodoli, está protagonizado por una serie de personajes con distintos puntos de vista sobre el instituto. Dos destacan por encima del resto. Uno de ellos es el joven profesor Prezioso, idealista y obstinado, que sirve de contrapunto para el insolente desencanto del otro, el también profesor, aunque más veterano, Fiorito. El primero piensa que puede cambiar el mundo; el segundo, que los jóvenes no entienden nada de nada. La rigurosa directora del instituto, Giuliana, está convencida de que "en el centro hay un dentro y un fuera y nosotros tenemos que ocuparnos sólo de lo que pasa dentro", pero luego es la primera que se interesa por sus alumnos más allá de los límites del instituto.

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

Documentary warning about the decline of American public schools as they become more and more privatized.

Four children enter a high-stakes lottery. If they win, they can attend one of the best schools in New York. A look at the crisis in public education, The Lottery makes the case than any child can succeed.

The purpose of Rise Above the Mark, narrated by Peter Coyote, is to educate the general public about the “corporate takeover” of Indiana public schools and what parents, community members and educators can do to protect their local public schools. Legislators are calling the shots and putting public schools in an ever-shrinking box. WLCSC Board of School Trustees and Superintendent of Schools, Rocky Killion, want to secure resources and legislative relief necessary to achieve the school district’s mission of creating a world-class educational system for all children. The school district’s strategic plan will introduce a model of education that puts decision making back into the hands of local communities and public school teachers, rather than leaving it in the hands of legislators and ultimately lining the pockets of corporations.

Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

In this two-hour special, NOVA captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in one of the latest battles over teaching evolution in public schools. Featuring trial reenactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants, including expert scientists and Dover parents, teachers, and town officials, "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" follows the celebrated federal case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District.

The lowest paid teachers in the nation are in the middle of a statewide walkout in Oklahoma. From start to finish, Walkout follows the teachers as they get organized and demand raises from their state legislature. From crowded classrooms to a packed state capitol, Walkout offers an in-depth, personal look at the latest strike at the heart of a nationwide movement for education funding.

"Bulletproof" observes the age-old rituals that take place daily in American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements, and math class. Unfolding alongside these scenes are an array of newer traditions: lockdown drills, teacher firearm trainings, metal detector inspections, and school safety trade shows. This documentary weaves together these moments in a cinematic meditation on fear, violence, and the meaning of safety, bringing viewers into intimate proximity with the people self-tasked with protecting the nation's children while generating revenue along the way, as well as with those most deeply impacted by these heightened security measures: students and teachers.

An American elementary school program from the 1970s, Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), looked to the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic to help students see their own society in a new way. At its core was The Netsilik Film Series, an acclaimed benchmark of visual anthropology from the National Film Board that captured a year in the life of an Inuit family, reconstructing an ancient culture on the cusp of contact with the outside world. But the graphic images of the Netsilik people created a clash of values that tore rifts in communities across the U.S. and revealed a fragile relationship between politics and education. A fiery national debate ensued between academic and conservative forces.

Filmed in September 1993, this documentary is about young boys starting boarding prep school. It features Nick Duffell of Boarding School Survivors talking about surviving boarding school and his work with former boarders. It is the earliest example of a TV documentary about “modern” boarding, and was for many the first impetus to recognise and seek help to overcome the legacies of the boarding experience.

Documental sobre la emigración de los pinguinos en la Antártida. Cada año en la Antártida da comienzo un emocionante y hermoso viaje. Cientos de miles de pingüinos Emperador abandonan la seguridad del océano para adentrarse en la desértica tierra helada. Una región tan dura y extrema que ningún otro ser vivo se atreve a habitar. Toda la comunidad de Pingüinos marchan a través de este difícil paisaje de hielo. Con resolución y valentía conducidos por su necesidad de reproducirse con el fín de la supervivencia de la especie. Esta es la historia de una familia de pingüinos.

Director James Toback takes an unflinching, uncompromising look at the life of Mike Tyson--almost solely from the perspective of the man himself. TYSON alternates between the controversial boxer addressing the camera and shots of the champion's fights to create an arresting picture of the man.

Entre 1990 y 2003, Timothy Treadwell, camarero, actor ocasional y ex-alcohólico, pasó catorce veranos conviviendo con los osos grizzly. Él mismo grabó con su cámara de vídeo sus estancias en Alaska y su obsesiva relación con los plantígrados (unas cien horas). Werner Herzog usó parte de este material. El último verano, uno de los osos atacó a Timothy y a su novia Annie.

Johnny Knoxville y sus amigos siguen con sus arriesgadas aventuras.

En 1972 se estrenó una película que convulsionó la realidad social estadounidense: Garganta Profunda. Estrenada en el mismo momento en que los movimientos nacionales para la liberación sexual, la igualdad de derechos y los valores contraculturales estaban alcanzando su punto álgido, esta película sexualmente explícita se convirtió inesperadamente en el epicentro de una tormenta social y política sin precedentes. El gobierno de Nixon y el FBI iniciaron una cruzada contra la película y sus creadores. Inside Deep Throat (Dentro de Garganta Profunda) es un documental en el que los directores Randy Barbato y Fenton Bailey nos proponen un viaje a los años 70, a la situación social, cultural y política de los norteamericanos, y al intenso impacto que provocó una película pornográfica, cuyo título llegó incluso a servir de referente al escándalo de Watergate que acabó costando la presidencia a Nixon.

¡Han vuelto! En una película con todo el material que no pudieron incluir en la número dos. Te reirás hasta llorar y desencajar tu mandíbula a medida que Johny Knoxville y los chicos te introducen entre bambalinas con Jackass 2.5, hablando de estas increíbles e inéditas acrobacias, bromas y otros actos aleatorios de malicia y estupidez en unas hilarantes entrevistas nuevas. 90 minutos de metraje extra y de contenidos especiales. Jackass 2.5 es tan insólito, sucio y directamente sexy como sus predecesores, pero a unos niveles que no podrían verse en los cines.

Johnny Knoxville y el resto del reparto de la serie de televisión "Jackass" realizan las hazañas más escandalosas y divertidas en Japón, donde se disfrazan de pandas y atacan un campo de golf mas intensas que en la TV.