First Graders

A group of uniformed Japanese schoolchildren make their way to class. But what they will be taught when they get there is a subject increasingly...

Children learn through play in Irish Montessori schools in the 1970s, accompanied by voiceover explaining the Montessori method and jaunty jazz...

Every year, around 3000 Indigenous students receive scholarships to attend some of Australia’s most prestigious boarding schools. It is an...

A documentary about a vision care school that enables visually impaired children to learn the skills necessary for a full life.

Two high school students from very different backgrounds participate in a musical with mentally disabled children, which eventually leads to the...

An elementary school in Japan begins an experimental program that frames the students' curriculum around one single project: the raising of a calf...

A daily life in Korogocho, Kenya, one of the world’s poorest slums.

Sing! is a 2001 American short documentary film about the Los Angeles Children's Chorus, directed by Freida Lee Mock. How do squeaky-voiced 8 year...

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from...