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1) A single man
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
See the stories of four teachers in different areas of the country, revealing the frustrating realities of today's teachers, the difficulty of attracting talented new educators, and why so many of our best teachers leave the profession altogether. Can we re-value teaching and turn it into a prestigious, financially attractive, and desirable profession? With almost half of American teachers leaving the field in the next ten years, now is the time to...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men who meet for the first time at that moment: Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at the university hoping to study with Seldom. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try...
6) 187
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After a teacher is beaten in his Brooklyn school, he leaves for a troubled school in L.A. to try to escape the memories.
Publisher
Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious and intense interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues that he is an immortal who has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Lance Clayton once dreamed of a career as a rich and famous writer. He has only managed to be a single dad, and high-school poetry teacher. Kyle is his only son who is a jackass that won't give him the time of day. Lance is dating Claire, the school's adorable art teacher. She doesn't want to get serious or even acknowledge publicly that they are dating. In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and greatest opportunity of his...
10) Won't back down
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, Jamie Fitzpatrick tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
This film chronicles a year in the life of a one-room schoolhouse in rural France, presided over by Georges Lopez, a devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11. The film sees the teacher as artist, and presents teaching as a form of love. Because along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, the children learn about what we think of as the basic values of civilization: reason, tolerance, learning, cooperation, and comradeship....
15) Detachment
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Henry Barthes is an educator with a talent to connect with his students. Yet as a substitute teacher he hides his gift to avoid emotional connections. When an assignment places him at a school with a burned-out administration and an apathetic student body, he becomes a role model as a teacher. His emotional bond with the students and teachers help him see he is not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless...
16) Mona Lisa Smile
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a strong-willed teacher who has forgone the life of the big city and found a job, a home - and a bit uof unexpected romance with a handsome Mountie named Jack - in the small frontier town of Hope Valley. But life on the frontier can hand you many tough turns, and so it is for Jack and Elizabeth as they face their very different upbringings, the pressures put upon...
18) Extraordinary
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Although proud of his incredible athletic accomplishments and the impact he has on his students, David's family continuously pays a high price for his years of competitive running. Following his open-heart surgery and irreparable damage to his knees, Nancy is ready for Dave to hang up his racing shoes for good and focus his boundless energy on their family. Instead, feeling called by God to inspire people one last time, Dave sets off for a 2,900-mile...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A romantic classic about a staid schoolmaster whose heart is thawed by a beautiful young woman. Arthur Chipping is the new Latin master at an English boy's boarding school. The eccentric schoolmaster lives a full, rich life within the cloistered school, defined by his role as the intellectual shepherd of generations of young students. Then while traveling through the countryside on summer holiday, he unexpected falls in love. His new wife ignites...
Series
When calls the heart volume Year 4
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a strong-willed teacher who has forgone the life of the big city and found a job, a home - and a bit uof unexpected romance with a handsome Mountie named Jack - in the small frontier town of Hope Valley. But life on the frontier can hand you many tough turns, and so it is for Jack and Elizabeth as they face their very different upbringings, the pressures put upon...