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.

Чакка – ученик, который всё время шутит и ставит уроки под угрозу срыва. Адам – отличник, задумчивый выходец из семьи румынских эмигрантов, влюбленный в итальянскую соученицу. Анджела – заводила, девочка из неблагополучной семьи, неожиданно влюбляющаяся в молодого учителя... Это он, тот самый учитель на замену, новый преподаватель словесности в старших классах средней школы, старается запомнить имена юных лоботрясов, царапающих непристойности на партах. Наставники и ученики проведут вместе один учебный год, к окончанию которого никто не останется таким, как прежде..

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.

Каждую зиму, вот уже в течение многих тысячелетий, в ледяных пустынях Антарктики — самой негостеприимной части Земли — происходит поистине удивительное путешествие. Тысячи императорских пингвинов покидают надежную глубину океана, выходят на холодную землю и начинают свое долгое путешествие вглубь настолько сурового и морозного континента, что там нет никакой жизни. Но именно туда идут цепочкой, друг за другом императорские пингвины. Несмотря на слепящие снежные бури, они решительно и упрямо идут туда, где должны дать жизнь потомству и обеспечить выживание вида.

Документальный фильм рассказывает об удивительной карьере культового боксера Майка Тайсона.

Фильм рассказывает о печальной судьбе исследователя-любителя Тимоти Тредвелла, посвятившего себя изучению повадок самого свирепого медведя на планете — гризли. Жизнь Тредвелла оборвалась в октябре 2003 года на Аляске. Огромный медведь разорвал исследователя и его подругу во время очередного путешествия. На протяжении картины друзья и коллеги Тимоти пытаются понять причины его необыкновенного увлечения и ответить, что заставляет современного человека отказаться от благ цивилизации в пользу дружбы с гигантским медведем.

Компания отморозков возвращается на большой экран, чтобы поднять ставки выше, чем когда-либо. Они совершают перед камерой настолько изощренное членовредительство, такие сумасшедшие трюки, которые точно не стоит никому повторять…

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel, "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved to become one of the most successful independent films of all time. It caught the public imagination which met the spirit of the times, even as the self appointed guardians of public morality struggled to suppress it, and created, for a brief moment, a possible future where sexuality in film had a bold artistic potential. This film covers the story of the making of this controversial film, its stunning success, its hysterical opposition along with its dark side of mob influence and allegations of the on set mistreatment of the film's star.

Компания великовозрастных отморозков возвращается, чтобы поднять ставки выше, чем когда-либо. Они совершают перед камерой настолько изощренное членовредительство, такие сумасшедшие трюки, которые точно никому не стоит пытаться повторять. Вы готовы спрыгнуть с моста, будучи привязанным за причинное место к другому человеку?

Наши герои начисто лишены стыда и инстинкта самосохранения, совсем не обращают внимания на боль и с удовольствием будут мучить себя и других!