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Films set in boarding schools, schools where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of " room and board ", i.e. lodging and meals. See also: Category:Films about orphans
An outcast teenager in 1965 suspects sinister goings-on in the woods surrounding her new boarding school. [66] 2011 The Awakening: Nick Murphy: A paranormal debunker arrives at a boys' boarding school to disprove alleged hauntings. [67] 2012 The Moth Diaries: Mary Harron: A female boarding school student suspects a new peer is a vampire. [68] 2015
Films set in schools, educational institutions and buildings designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education , which is sometimes compulsory .
“The fictional Barton Academy of the movie is constructed from five different schools: Groton, Northfield Mount Herman, Deerfield, St. Mark's, and a very beautiful public high school called ...
Scent of a Woman (1992) – set at a New England boarding school; School Ties (1992) – set at a fictional elite Massachusetts boarding school; Ethan Frome (1993) The Firm (1993) The Good Son (1993) Hocus Pocus (1993) – set in Salem, Massachusetts; Malice (1993) – set in Boston, Massachusetts; The Man Without a Face (1993) Needful Things ...
Where the Spirit Lives is a 1989 television film about Aboriginal children in Canada being taken from their tribes to attend residential schools for assimilation into majority culture. Written by Keith Ross Leckie and directed by Bruce Pittman , it aired on CBC Television on October 29, 1989. [ 2 ]
Year Title Author ISBN Notes 1988: Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School: Celia Haig-Brown: ISBN 0889781893: One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in the British Columbia interior.
Based on the non-fiction novel “A Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley, “Lion” tells the story of Saroo, portrayed by Dev Patel, who gets lost on a train and ends up thousands of miles away ...