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A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

The powerful true story of 150 at-risk students from Long Beach, California, who were once considered unteachable. The documentary that follows what happened to the students after the 2007 film aired.

A passionate and innovative teacher leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to this students, Ron Clark must use unconventional methods, including his ground-breaking classroom rules, to drive them toward their potential.

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

Alun arrives in Glasgow to play a gig at The Edge, a comedy club run by would-be promoter Max T. Max T should be looking after Alun, but he already has his hands full trying to keep Sandy Cervi, his second cousin and business partner, from taking over the club. In a bid to sort out some 'poontang' for himself and Alun, Max invites Eva, a psychiatric nurse and her photographer friend Christina along to the gig.

When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.

Warren Sanders (Johnny Moon) has had a crush on his best friend's older brother, Theo Grant (Pierce Paris) for decades. When Warren's best friend, Gregory Grant, passes unexpectedly, Warren and Theo lean on each other while their true feelings come to the surface. Jeffrey (Dante Colle) is a closeted man who is full of fears about his identity. Though he's a successful doctor, he struggles with his inner voice telling him there's something wrong with him and his proclivities. It takes Lance (Dakota Payne), a handsome new confidante, to help Jeffrey on his first steps to self-acceptance.

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.

Two middle eastern detectives on the Louisville Police Department struggle with the aftermath of a Post 9/11 America. Director Hussain Ahmad Writer Hussain Ahmad Stars Hussain AhmadInder KumarErik Kyr

A Jewish parole officer, Jeff Solomon White, struggles in his new role as a reading teacher for illiterate teens at a New York high school. Hard Lesson film Raised by African American parents, White sees the situation differently and is motivated to fight for his students, who face an almost certain life of crime and prison