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The Movie Guide Blog

Discover movies worth showing in your classroom, with practical insights on the themes, learning opportunities, and educational value of each one.

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ELAESL

A Beautiful Mind (2001): The Oscar-Winning True Story That Makes Maths and Mental Health Impossible to Ignore

A Beautiful Mind follows John Nash, a mathematical genius whose groundbreaking work on game theory brought him to the edge of international acclaim before schizophrenia began to unravel everything he had built. It is a story about brilliance, crisis, and the people who refuse to give up on someone even when that person has lost the ability to distinguish what is real. For older students, it is the kind of movie that stays with them.

2 June 2026Read more →

ELAScience

Hidden Figures (2016): The True Story That Brings History, Maths, and the Civil Rights Era to Life

Hidden Figures tells the true story of three African American women whose mathematical brilliance helped NASA win the Space Race, all while navigating the segregation and discrimination of 1960s Virginia. Students who think history class means memorising dates will find themselves gripped by a story where the stakes are as high as orbit. It is the kind of movie that sparks genuine conversation long after the credits roll.

2 June 2026Read more →

ELAESL

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008): Teaching the Holocaust Through a Child's Eyes

A quietly devastating drama that tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes of a German officer's young son who befriends a Jewish boy on the other side of a concentration camp fence. Sensitively made and deeply affecting, it is serious classroom material for older students.

1 June 2026Read more →