Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier), from British Guiana by way of California, took a teaching position in a London East End school in the 1967 film.

Knights of the South Bronx is a 2005 television film about a teacher who helps students at a tough inner-city school to succeed by teaching them to play chess.

The story follows a young teacher, Pat Conroy, in 1969 assigned to isolated "Yamacraw Island" (Daufuskie Island) off the coast of South Carolina and populated mostly by poor black families.

Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night.

Students at Steinmetz High School are less than enthusiastic about anything in the classroom, except for Jolie Fitch, a junior who enjoys Dr.

Toe to Toe are an Australian hardcore band from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Set wholly in a secondary school in a working-class district of Paris, where many inhabitants are foreign-born, the film follows the year of a young teacher, François Marin, and the 25 pupils aged 14 or 15 who he takes for an hour each day in French language.

Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan A. Johnson) is an African-American, 17-year-old high school junior who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Detachment is a chronicle of one month in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody).

A 17-year-old, attending a Washington state high-school, made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.

High school student Paula Crisostomo is tired of being treated unequally.

The Invisible Eye (Spanish: La mirada invisible) is a 2010 international coproduction drama film directed by Diego Lerman.

The film focuses on three African-American youths living in an urban neighborhood.

Our Song follows three high school girls over one summer in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

A Lesson Before Dying is a 1999 American made-for-television drama film adapted from the 1993 Ernest J. Gaines novel of the same name.

Caitlin Rose is a shy 17-year-old in the new town of Lockhart, Illinois.

After some personal trauma, Wilson Walmsley is invited to work as a substitute teacher in a suburban public high school.

By 1987, the once successful Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, has deteriorated due to drugs and crime.

Set in the not so distant future, in the United States, sixteen-year-old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision.

Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a young middle-school history teacher at a Brooklyn school, with a teaching style that rejects the standard curriculum in favor of an approach based upon dialectics (specifically Engels' three laws of dialectics).