Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "history-class"

1. Another Round (2020)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama

Four high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe

Votes: 194,744

2. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

PG | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine.

Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri

Votes: 141,601 | Gross: $40.49M

3. The Final (I) (2010)

R | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An awkward student with a deadly vendetta leads a group of outcasts who plot to avenge the years of humiliation they faced by the popular students at Hohn High School.

Director: Joey Stewart | Stars: Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy, Justin Arnold

Votes: 11,992

4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

R | 93 min | Horror

Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Robert Englund, Rodney Eastman, John Beckman, Kisha Brackel

Votes: 61,591 | Gross: $49.37M

5. Half Nelson (2006)

R | 106 min | Drama

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

Director: Ryan Fleck | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Shareeka Epps, Jeff Lima

Votes: 91,891 | Gross: $2.69M

6. Doubt (I) (2008)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Mystery

A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.

Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

Votes: 136,054 | Gross: $33.42M

7. If.... (1968)

R | 111 min | Crime, Drama

In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.

Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan

Votes: 25,180

8. Clueless (1996–1999)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy

A follow-up to the blockbuster movie of the same name, following the rich teenager Cher and her friends as they attend high school in Beverly Hills.

Stars: Rachel Blanchard, Stacey Dash, David Lascher, Donald Faison

Votes: 3,504

9. Yoga Hosers (2016)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

Two teenage yoga enthusiasts must do battle with an evil presence that is threatening to rise from its underground lair and endanger their major party plans.

Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Lily-Rose Depp, Harley Quinn Smith, Johnny Depp, Adam Brody

Votes: 15,479

10. Drillbit Taylor (2008)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully.

Director: Steven Brill | Stars: Owen Wilson, Josh Peck, Alex Frost, Nate Hartley

Votes: 62,389 | Gross: $32.85M

11. Fright Night Part 2 (1988)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

"Fright Night Part 2" is a sequel to "link=tt0089175]". Charley Brewster and the horror host Peter Vincent must face more vampires, out for revenge.

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Traci Lind, Julie Carmen

Votes: 14,231 | Gross: $2.98M

12. Amityville: The Awakening (2017)

PG-13 | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

A desperate single mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted, real-life Amityville house to try and use its dark powers to cure her comatose son. Things go horribly wrong.

Director: Franck Khalfoun | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bella Thorne, Mckenna Grace, Cameron Monaghan

Votes: 15,493 | Gross: $0.00M

13. Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Thriller

The story of a girl who is willing to do anything to become Valedictorian, even if it means murdering the teacher that stands in her way.

Director: Kevin Williamson | Stars: Helen Mirren, Marisa Coughlan, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor

Votes: 21,711 | Gross: $8.95M

14. God's Not Dead 2 (2016)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy

When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her response lands her in deep trouble.

Director: Harold Cronk | Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, David A.R. White, Hayley Orrantia

Votes: 13,433 | Gross: $20.77M

15. Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994 Video)

R | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

In the future, corporations have taken over the world and banned sex. A group of rebellious high school students devise a way to go back in time and change history to prevent that from ... See full summary »

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Morgan Fairchild, Ian Abercrombie, Brian Bremer, Christopher Wolf

Votes: 630

16. The Passengers of the Night (2022)

111 min | Drama

Left by her husband, Elisabeth finds herself alone, responsible for the day-to-day care of her two children. She picks up a job on a night-time radio show, where she meets Talulah, a youngster she decides to take under her wing.

Director: Mikhaël Hers | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Quito Rayon Richter, Noée Abita, Megan Northam

Votes: 2,998

17. Zombie High (1987)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror

A college freshman begins to notice that students at her new school are losing their individuality. She discovers that the faculty are operating on the students' brains to make them docile and productive, but she's having none of it.

Director: Ron Link | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Richard Cox, Kay E. Kuter, James Wilder

Votes: 1,447 | Gross: $0.02M

18. Teach Me Tonight (1997)

R | 92 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

A jealously raging woman wishes her lover dead, then returns to discover him murdered.

Director: Rick Blaine | Stars: Judy Thompson, Kim Yates, Jack Becker, John Logan

Votes: 332

19. Servant of the People (2015–2019)

TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy

After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against government corruption goes viral on social media, he finds himself elected the country's new president.

Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Stanislav Boklan, Viktor Saraykin, Elena Kravets

Votes: 4,368

20. The Fifth Cord (1971)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A maverick, heavy-drinking journalist pursues a killer who is targeting acquaintances of his, prompting the police to brand him a suspect in their investigation.

Director: Luigi Bazzoni | Stars: Franco Nero, Silvia Monti, Wolfgang Preiss, Ira von Fürstenberg

Votes: 2,563

21. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)

R | 105 min | Drama

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman

Votes: 455

22. Love at First Hiccup (2009)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A high school romantic comedy about freshman Victor who has contracted a case of Anya-itis, (acute and incurable love passion for high school senior Anja.) And why shouldn't he?

Director: Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Devon Werkheiser, Tania Verafield, Ken Luckey

Votes: 3,225

23. Timestalkers (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Scott McKenzie, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph from 1886.

Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: William Devane, Lauren Hutton, John Ratzenberger, Forrest Tucker

Votes: 1,541

24. How to Get Girls (2017)

93 min | Comedy

A nerdy high schooler exploits his childhood best friend's newly found good looks to climb the popularity chain.

Directors: Omri Dorani, Zachary Sage | Stars: Kate Flannery, Chris Elliott, David Koechner, Chris Kattan

Votes: 689

25. Beware the Gonzo (2010)

TV-14 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young muckraker decides to start his own underground newspaper at his high school.

Director: Bryan Goluboff | Stars: Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Griffin Newman, Stefanie Y. Hong

Votes: 1,828

26. The Five Senses (1999)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's ... See full summary »

Director: Jeremy Podeswa | Stars: Molly Parker, Gabrielle Rose, Elize Frances Stolk, Nadia Litz

Votes: 3,146 | Gross: $0.50M

27. Once in a Lifetime (2014)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

A teacher manages to get her toughest class involved in a collective project that could give a whole new meaning to the lives of her students.

Director: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Ahmed Dramé, Noémie Merlant, Geneviève Mnich

Votes: 2,149

28. Los héroes del mal (2015)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Three teenagers, brought together by bullying, indulge in petty theft, sex and drugs. They inevitably realize they can resort to violence to take revenge on everyone who has humiliated them: students, teachers and other outcasts. One of them escalates to killing, and desires to kill again. Anyone can become his next victim. The other two face the question: should they resort to violence to stop ... See full summary »

Director: Zoe Berriatúa | Stars: Emilio Palacios, Jorge Clemente, Beatriz Medina, Macarena Gómez

Votes: 1,116

29. Broke (III) (2017)

36 min | Short, Drama

A dark and chilling story set in a Scandinavian Suburb. A teenager's millionaire father is declared bankrupt causing the family unit to collapse. Rumours concerning the teenager's father ... See full summary »

Director: Bjørn Erik Pihlmann Sørensen | Stars: Hanne Brincker, Sofie Albertine Foss, Yngvild Støen Grotmol, Arthur Hakalahti

Votes: 48

30. Lesson Plan (2010)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Biography, History

'Lesson Plan' is a documentary featuring interviews of the original students and teacher of the 1967 Third Wave experiment. This exercise in fascism took place in Palo Alto, California. ... See full summary »

Directors: David Jeffery, Philip Carr Neel | Stars: Ron Jones, Philip Zimbardo, Scott Thomson, Sherry Tousley

Votes: 184

31. Winter Solstice (I) (2004)

R | 90 min | Drama

In this suburban drama, a widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.

Director: Josh Sternfeld | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Aaron Stanford, Mark Webber, Allison Janney

Votes: 1,473 | Gross: $0.32M

32. Mamitas (2011)

R | 109 min | Drama

The day Jordin is suspended from school for insulting a teacher, he meets Felipa, a bookish, no-nonsense New York girl who sees past the swaggering facade.

Director: Nicholas Ozeki | Stars: E.J. Bonilla, Veronica Diaz Carranza, Josue Aguirre, Maynor Alvarado

Votes: 491

33. Christmas on Division Street (1991 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance

A good-natured homeless man and an ill-tempered student become good friends.

Director: George Kaczender | Stars: Fred Savage, Hume Cronyn, Badja Djola, Jim Byrnes

Votes: 590

34. Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953)

Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.

Directors: Ward Kimball, Charles Nichols | Stars: The Mellowmen Quartet, Loulie Jean Norman, Charlie Parlota, Bill Thompson

Votes: 1,556

35. 3 Times a Charm (2011)

TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy

Emma, the studious editor of the school paper, is tempted by the most popular boy in school, Chris Duval, to cheat. She is given a magical necklace that will give her 3 chances.

Director: Letia Clouston | Stars: Carlo Marks, Lexi Giovagnoli, Noelle Perris, Michelle Glavan

Votes: 417

36. American Promise (2013)

TV-PG | 135 min | Documentary

This intimate documentary follows the 12-year journey of two African-American families pursuing the promise of opportunity through the education of their sons.

Directors: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson | Stars: Idris Brewster, Joe Brewster, Miles Brewster, Michèle Stephenson

Votes: 300 | Gross: $0.09M

37. Louloute (2020)

87 min | Comedy, Drama

A teacher's chance meeting with her boyfriend when she was 10 triggers memories of past life on her family's dairy farm, feeling economic pressure in the 1980s.

Director: Hubert Viel | Stars: Alice Henri, Laure Calamy, Bruno Clairefond, Erika Sainte

Votes: 136

38. Burgis (1981)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

After Juni Locsin (Gabby Concepcion) was expelled from college, he is forced to continue his studies at Eastern College of the Republic, a common university. It contrasts the kind of ... See full summary »

Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Gabby Concepcion, Amy Austria, Isabel Rivas, Rez Cortez

Votes: 8

39. First Love (1974 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary

After the doctor's refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their ... See full summary »

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Votes: 363

40. Tréfa (2009)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

It is 1912 and war looms on the horizon. The school year begins in a boarding school run by priests. Zoltán's father, is one of the masters and struggling with questions that challenge ... See full summary »

Director: Péter Gárdos | Stars: Lóránd Váta, Tamás Lengyel, Mihály Kovács, Zsolt Kovács

Votes: 174

41. To pio grigoro bouzouki (1973)

106 min | Comedy

A loafing country boy arrives in Athens to study; but, instead, he follows his friend's advice to pursue a career as a bouzouki player. Before long, he becomes a popular music idol; however, how long will his overnight success last?

Director: Giorgos Papakostas | Stars: Tasos Giannopoulos, Liza Alexiou, Marika Nezer, Stelios Tsolakakis

Votes: 9

42. Bored of Education (1946)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Lulu answers wrong on a history quiz after cheating off of Tubby. While sitting in the corner and wearing a dunce cap Lulu falls asleep and dreams of chasing Tubby through history to get back at him.

Directors: Bill Tytla, Nick Tafuri | Stars: Gwen Davies, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Cecil Roy

Votes: 109

43. Juízo, Menino... (2020)

24 min | Short, Drama, Romance

In a country town, a relationship between teacher and student goes beyond the classroom and changes their lives.

Director: Diego Dos Anjos | Stars: Juka Goulart, Ruan Aguiar, Jean Marcel Gatti, Neri Monteiro

Votes: 7

44. The Edited (2021)

11 min | Short

An earnest, misfit girl enters a strange school where they literally edit history, science, and literature, and teach that Big Brother is actually the hero of George Orwell's 1984. Will ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Choit | Stars: Trista Nabors, Melissa Shoshahi, Matt Larson, Sonia Elsie

Votes: 16

45. King (2010)

35 min | Documentary, Short, History

Students explore their surroundings, questioning the past, present and future. Various people from all walks of life have made their homes here. Each path, field and structure has a tale to tell. This is the story of King Township.

Director: Mark Magro

46. Borders (2017)

5 min | Short, Drama

It is about the limits that metaphorically imprison people. The movie questions the institutional and patriarchal boundaries.

Director: Engin Can Yagci | Stars: Yusuf Tibet Gunaydin, Alin Kargaci, Ela Emine Ozcan, Nehir Ozgur

47. Clueless (1996–1999)
Episode: Cher, Inc. (1996)

TV-G | Comedy

Cher and Dee are inspired to make stylish muff purses for their hands. Before long everybody at school wants one so Cher starts up a business making them. However, after selling them at a show the reality of running a business sets in.

Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Rachel Blanchard, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Elisa Donovan

Votes: 22

48. Clueless (1996–1999)
Episode: We Shall Overpack (1996)

TV-G | Comedy

After Miss Geist is injured in class, Principal Lehman bans backpacks in school and only allows them to wear fanny packs. Inspired to fight the injustice, Cher leads a school revolt against the decision.

Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Rachel Blanchard, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Elisa Donovan

Votes: 28

49. Drake & Josh (2004–2007)
Episode: Guitar (2004)

TV-Y7 | 24 min | Comedy, Family

Megan gives an ecstatic Drake a guitar autographed by the lead singer of a band he loves, but Josh accidentally sets his brother's prized possession on fire.

Director: Virgil L. Fabian | Stars: Josh Peck, Drake Bell, Nancy Sullivan, Jonathan Goldstein

Votes: 338

50. Everwood (2002–2006)
Episode: Colin the Second (2003)

Not Rated | 45 min | Drama

Although conflicted by his feelings for Amy, Ephram finds himself serving as confidante and friend to Amy's boyfriend, Colin, who continues to feel like a fish-out-of-water as he attempts ... See full summary »

Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, Emily VanCamp, Debra Mooney

Votes: 120