Drawing on his own experience Steve McQueen tells the story of a Black boy victimized by the British racist educational system designed to weed out minority students.
Education (2020)
And Breathe Normally (2018)
The story of 2 mothers, one a Icelandic Border Police trainee, & the other an African refugee caught trying to fly using a forged passport, a story full of grace and compassion.
Chasing Freedom (2004)
A self-centered lawyer is changed into a compassionate human being when she is made to defend an Afghan woman who will be killed if she is deported back to her own country.
Selah and the Spades (2019)
At a prep school Selah heads the Spades, controllers of campus drug & alcohol traffic, & during her senior year drafts sophomore Paloma as her possible successor.
The Best of Enemies (2019)
This movie has its flaws, but it still is an inspiring true story of a Klansman and an African-American activist slowly forging a friendship. Click the movie title to read Ed’s review.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
The son of a poor farmer in Malawi must struggle against his father & other odds to bring water to his drought-stricken village.
Gifted (2017)
On the 1st day of 1st grade Mary’s teacher discovers she is gifted in math, setting off a fight between her uncle raising her & his mother over how to do so–in a normal school as he promised her deceased mother, his sister, or isolated in a school for geniuses.
America’s Dream (1996)
In 1948 Georgia at a “colored” school, a talented boy presents a birthday present to his teacher, a Christ painted black, creating a dilemma for the principal because his white supervisor is so upset with it.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
An 11 year-old orphan raised by cruel relatives discovers at wizard’s school that he is the son of famous parents & must face the being that killed them.
Ender’s Game (2013)
In this Sc-Fi film a boy is sent to a ilitary school to see if he is “the chosen one” to lead earth’s war against the alien race that had been beaten back frotaking over the Earth 50 years earlier.