
The Class(2008)
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.


“History. It's just one bloody thing after another.”
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

Richard Griffiths
Hector

Stephen Campbell Moore
Irwin

Dominic Cooper
Dakin

Samuel Barnett
Posner

James Corden
Timms

Russell Tovey
Rudge

Samuel Anderson
Crowther

Jamie Parker
Scripps

Andrew Knott
Lockwood

Sacha Dhawan
Akhtar
The History Boys is a drama film released in 2006 exploring themes of high school, northern england, scholarship, becoming an adult, education, exam. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, it stars Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper. The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
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