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"The History Boys" tells the story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grossly out-numbered history .. Read more
| Starring | Samuel Anderson, Jack Bagley, Samuel Barnett, Stephen Campbell Moore |
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| Director | Nicholas Hytner |
| Genres | Drama |
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"The History Boys" tells the story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grossly out-numbered history teacher (Frances de la Tour), and a headmaster obsessed with results (Clive Merrison), the boys attempt to sift through it all to pass the daunting university admissions process. Their journey becomes as much about how education works, as it is about where education leads.
| Starring | Samuel Anderson, Jack Bagley, Samuel Barnett, Stephen Campbell Moore, Richard Griffiths, Frances De La Tour, Clive Merrison, Penelope Wilton |
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| Director | Nicholas Hytner |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | Top 400 All-Time Rentals |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description |
| Released | Production year: 2006 To Rent: DVD: 05 Mar 2007 |
Thereâs something of Joe Orton about âThe History Boysâ, the play by Alan Bennett which makes the transfer from... read more on Time Out
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Diabolical
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"History..... It's Just One Bloody Thing After Another".
A great, witty coming of age film, concerning a group of well educated classmates, who are being steered towards an Oxford education.
Lots of good ... read more »
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This should be history!!
This is an ok film, pretty hard to get get into at the beginning although the end saved it slightly. This is more of a highbrow film than aything else.
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History Boys
This film came highly recommended to me, but I was highly disappointed. I did manage to watch it to the end !!