TOP TEN: Teachers' Day Special
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Dead Poets Society is one of Robin Williams’ great dramatic roles. He shines as the English teacher who refuses to let his boys think of themselves as living ordinary lives. He shows them the true meaning of Carpe Diem. Favorite Scene: "Oh Captain, My Captain."
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In To Sir, with Love (1967), Sidney Poitier is the quintessential inspirational teacher. He plays an idealistic engineer-turned-teacher who ends up in an East End London school where the staff has given up on the rowdy, incorrigible students. Things start rough but once he throws out the textbooks and decides to teach the kids about life.
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The tagline of this hugely acclaimed film is: Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them. Will Hunting, Matt Damon, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics but needs help from a psychologist, Robin Williams, to find direction in his life. The movie was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
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Denzel Washington directed and starred in The Great Debaters (2007), a story of professor Melvin Tolson of Wiley College in Texas. Set in the 1930s, the film focuses on how he formed the school's first debate team and managed to challenge prejudices to get his team to face off with Ivy League.
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Stand And Deliver is a classic masterpiece about the work of a teacher trying hard to reach urban kids in a challenging school. Great performances by Lou Diamond Phillips and Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Gallactica) make the movie inspiring.
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Lean on Me is a story that is inspiring and true. It tells that first you have to get control of the school before you can expect students to learn. It stars Morgan Freeman and Beverly Todd as lead actors.
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High school basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel Jackson) after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement.
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Louanne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an ex-marine, hired as a teacher in a high-school in a poor area of the city. After a terrible reception from the students, she tries unconventional methods of teaching (using karate, Bob Dylan lyrics etc) to gain the trust of the students.
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Remember The Titans is probably both the best football movie and a great teacher movie. This true life story of two segregated schools learning how to deal with the issues that faced them in 1970. These two coaches taught their players and each other more than just how to win a game. Denzel Washington starred in this.
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Freedom Writers is based on a true story about Rafe Esquith and his story fighting the labour unions and school bureaucracy in the LA school system. This movie featured Hilary Swank as the teacher.
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In Mona Lisa Smile, Julia Roberts plays a free-thinking art professor, who teaches conservative 50's Wellesley girls to question their traditional societal roles.
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