Too often, if a child is illiterate at the end of third grade, they will fall behind forever. By nine years old, many children are already SENTENCED to the cycles of poverty, prison, and addiction that have devastated generations before them. Our story begins with a heartbreaking look at adults who never learned to read and ends with the children who still have a chance.
A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English p...
The raw, heartfelt and often funny journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they d...
A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.
As local newsrooms vanish, "News Without a Newsroom" explores journalism's uncertain future in the d...
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemp...
The Truth About Reading looks at the illiteracy problem in America, highlighting people who learned ...
Jay Blades, presenter of The Repair Shop, has decided it’s finally time to learn to read. He has bee...
Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the t...
In Turkey far too many women are still unable to read and write, and all they see in their life span...
A library on four legs, the world's only existing Camel Library is located in Northern Kenya. As the...
A retired high school English teacher is confronted by a former student who failed her class 15 year...
Presents an inductive experience in reading readiness. Shows a young boy as he interprets the meanin...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remot...
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two ...
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Ji...
A functionally illiterate factory foreman (Dennis Weaver) loses his job after refusing a promotion t...
Desperate for clients, Isabelle, the owner of a small bookstore, accepts the offer to teach Caetano,...
John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young s...
The orphanage's pupils are sent by the district Komsomol committee to eliminate illiteracy in the re...