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Back To School
Rated PG-13

When a self-made millionaire discovers that his son plans to drop out of college, he enrolls in the same university to set a good example.


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The Breakfast Club
Rated-R

Five teens from drastically different cliques spend a day in detention with each other, delving into each others’ true personalities.


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The Class (Entre Les Murs)
Foreign PG-13

François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. His classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods.


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Community: Season 1
T.V.

A smooth-tongued attorney must deal with an extremely eclectic staff and student body when he is forced to attend a local community college after his education is deemed invalid by the bar.


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Daria: The Complete Animated Series
T.V.

The people of Lawndale just don’t get Daria Morgendorffer. See, Daria was born alienated, and now she’s just trying to make it through high school with as little human contact as possible. Popularity, friends, activities, whatever. Daria lacks enthusiasm, but she makes up for it with sarcasm.


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Dead Poets Society
Rated PG

Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming “Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!” The charismatic teacher’s emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm—changing their lives forever.


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Easy A
Rated PG-13

After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne’s in ‘The Scarlet Letter, ’ which she is currently studying in school. Hoping to become popular, she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.


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Fame
Rated PG

Centers around a group of dancers, singers, musicians and actors at the New York City High School of Performing Arts, and their spirited drive to live out their dreams of stardom. In an incredibly competitive atmosphere, each student must shine amidst the tumult of school work, deep friendships, budding romance and self-discovery.


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Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series
T.V.

A television show about two very unique cliches of teenagers dealing with life in a high school during the 1980’s. The show covers everything that you remember from high school that you may have chosen to forget.


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Friday Night Lights: Season 1
T.V.

Eric Taylor is the new head coach of the Dillon High School Panthers, the town’s pride. Now he must learn, along with his players, the highs and lows of the game, what it means to be a team, and how they can come together to be victorious.


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Glee: Season One, Vol. 1
T.V.

Optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing McKinley High’s Glee Club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential.


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Half Nelson
Rated R

A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source – one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?


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Hamlet 2
Rated R

When his Tucson, AZ school’s theater department is threatened to be cut, failed-actor-turned-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz writes a play that he hopes will solve everything, a sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Now, the drama department will stage one of the most politically incorrect musical extravaganzas ever seen.


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The History Boys
Rated R

Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England’s most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.


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My So-Called Life
T.V.

Angela Chase is a teenage girl who struggles with the problems of growing up, high school, and family life.


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Napoleon Dynamite
Rated PG-13

An alienated teen decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small town high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.


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Rocket Science
Rated R

In spite of his stuttering problem, the high school debate team star invites Hal to join the team. Stumbling his way to the championship, Hal falls in love, gains confidence, and ultimately realizes that love and life should not be rocket science.


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School of Rock
Rated PG

When his band votes him out due to his embarrassing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll.


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Strangers with Candy
T.V.- MA

Set in suburban Flatpoint USA, follow the misadventures of Jerrie Blank, a 46 year old dropout who has spent the last 32 years in and out of prison. She starts her life back up where she left it – living at home as a freshman in high school. (TV-M)


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Take Me Home Tonight
Rated R

When Matt Franklin’s high-school crush Tori shows up at his dead-end mall job, he and his buddy Barry devise a wild scheme for Matt to finally win the girl of his dreams. But only time will tell if Matt can seduce this gorgeous goddess at a wild party and survive an outrageous night of seduction, destruction and debauchery.


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21 Jump Street: Season 1
T.V.

An elite squad of young undercover cops infiltrate high schools and fight crime.


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Welcome Back, Kotter: Season 1
T.V.

Former Sweathog Gabe Kotter returns to his alma mater, Brooklyn’s James Buchanan High School to teach a new generation of Sweathogs, a group of supposedly unteachable, under-achieving and incorrigible students.


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