The First Class (2023)
• September 23rd, 2023 • 1h 39min
Documentary
Overview
An intimate verité film that follows students and educators at a groundbreaking new high school in Memphis. Their inspiring journey shows what learning can look like—and accomplish—when a city comes together to rethink what high school can be.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Adolescents
Released on: 2020-09-09
Documentary
Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to set them apart, their soci...
American Teen
Released on: 2008-07-25
Documentary
A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.
Science Fair
Released on: 2018-09-14
Documentary
Filmmakers follow nine high school students from around the globe as they compete at an internationa...
Resolved
Released on: 2007-01-01
Documentary
The fascinating complexity of high school debate gives way to a portrait of the equally complex raci...
But Beautiful
Released on: 2019-11-14
Documentary
In his new film, Erwin Wagenhofer is looking for the good and beautiful in this world.
More than a Game
Released on: 2008-09-06
Documentary
This documentary follows NBA superstar LeBron James and four of his talented teammates through the t...
Freakonomics
Released on: 2010-10-01
Documentary
Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everythin...
My So-Called High School Rank
Released on: 2022-09-30
Documentary
A deep dive into the lives of high school students in three radically disparate communities as they ...
We Did It on a Song
Released on: 2014-10-22
Documentary
This film tells the stormy tale of a group of friends from Boulogne-sur-Mer, a French town hit by th...
Frontrunners
Released on: 2008-10-15
Documentary
A documentary on the competition for student body president at New York's Stuyvesant High School. As...
Young Solitude
Released on: 2018-11-14
Documentary
Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age. Set in the P...
Seventeen
Released on: 1983-09-13
Documentary
In their final year at Muncie's Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity wi...
Going Varsity in Mariachi
Released on: 2023-01-22
Documentary
A year in the life of an underdog competitive high school mariachi band in the Texas borderlands.
Leader of the Pack
Released on: 2019-03-01
Documentary
Billy Hicks has been coaching basketball for over 40 years. He is the winningest high school basketb...
TimeWave Zero
Released on: 1994-01-01
Documentary
Terence McKenna gives us a detailed description of his TimeWave concept and a demonstration of the s...
Future My Love
Released on: 2012-06-21
Documentary, Romance
Directed and narrated by Maja Borg, Future My Love is a unique love story challenging our collective...
The Prom
Released on: 1982-01-01
Documentary
Ulrich Seidl applies his characteristically gentle eye to the wonderful people of his hometown of Ho...
Containment
Released on: 2015-09-30
Documentary
Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced from a nuclear power plant leaves a tr...
We Are Their Children
Released on: 2023-04-22
Documentary
A documentary film comprising of 26 interviews with students who are LGBTQIA+ and who go to L’Anse C...