Akeelah Anderson, a precocious eleven-year old girl from south Los Angeles has a gift for words and despite the reservations of her mother she enters pretty much every spelling contest she comes across. When Akeelah's ability earns her an opportunity to compete for a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee it brings not only hope to her stern tutor but manages to unite the whole neighbourhood. Akeelah and the Bee is a touching and well performed feel good drama. find out more...

Nerdy musicologist Will has moved to a new high school in New Jersey and finds himself being recruited to manage 'it' girl Charlotte's band in an inter-school rock band competition.

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A community worker sets the world to rights teaching prostitutes' children the art of photography in a red light area of Calcutta. As she befriends them she takes it on herself to 'rescue' them from their fate, their friends and their families by getting them enrolled in private education schools to help them change their destiny. Zana is such a powerful person that, as the follow up DVD extra 'Reconnecting with Born into Brothels' demonstrates, she succeeds. This is a superb film animated by th find out more...

Episode 14: Title: “Interpretive Dance”
Episode 15 Title: “Romantic Expressionism”
Episode 16 Title: “Communication Studies”
Episode 17 Title: “Physical Education”
Episode 18 Title: “Basic Genealogy”
Episode 19 Title: “Beginner Pottery”

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"Captain, my captain!" When charismatic Engish professor John Keating arrives at a traditional school, his unconventional teaching methods breathe new life into the curriculum. With his wit and wisdom Keating inspires his students to pursue individual passions and make their lives extraordinary. Uplifting and brilliant

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An ivy league college becomes an explosive battle ground for racial tensions that have been simmering away for decades after a horrendous Halloween party is thrown in poor taste by the affluent, over-entitled, racist white kids. Hilarious and right on the money, make time for it.

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Jamal Wallace is a gifted athlete with a gifted mind, from the poor side of the tracks he is offered a scholarship at one of the country's most prestigious schools. Jamal also meets the obsessively reclusive William Forrester, a Pulitzer prize winning novelist and the unlikely pair gradually form a close bond that begins through writing and develops into friendship, one discovering what he is truly capable of and the other realising what he has almost lost. Finding Forrester is an enjoyable dram find out more...

An excellent sequel to the Australian coming-of-age film "The Year My Voice Broke". Danny is now an outsider at boarding school where he falls for an African girl from the near-by girl's school. They manage to sustain a relationship with hilarious and charming consequences, capturing the goose-bumps, grunts, giggles and gorgeous rapture of teenage love. Taylor is a jowly delight, while 16-year-old newcomer Newton throws savage glances and sensuous smiles with the assured air of a seasoned profes find out more...

Donat is perfectly cast as the lovable teacher, in this classic British drama, reminiscing about his career and personal life over the decades, his rise from lowly Latin master to headmaster of a public school and the joys and tragedies which moulded his transformation. The film won a staggering seven Academy Awards. Hugely enjoyable. find out more...

A young teacher in modern Bhutan, Ugyen, shirks his duties while planning to go to Australia to become a singer. As a reprimand, his superiors send him to the most remote school in the world, a glacial Himalayan village called Lunana, to complete his service. He finds himself exiled from his Westernized comforts after an arduous 8 day trek just to get there. There he finds no electricity, no textbooks, not even a blackboard. Though poor, the villagers extend a warm welcome to their new teache find out more...