*The Library of Congress has announced the addition of 25 new films to its National Film Registry – among them, Sidney Poitier’s breakout film “Blackboard Jungle” and the 1990 drag documentary “Paris ...

In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an assignment at a boys high school in inner-city New York. However, he soon ...

Let me put this as simply as the film does: A man named François Marin (François Bégaudeau) teaches — or tries to teach — French to 14- and 15-year-old students in a coldly modern school in Paris. His ...

"Rock Around the Clock." What song better sums up an innocent time of malteds, saddle shoes and sock hops? When a show called "Happy Days" hit the airwaves in January 1974, "Rock Around the Clock" was ...

Another is that for many of Lucio’s charges, who live in a jerry-built neighbourhood on Buenos Aires’s periphery, education is secondary to survival. Lucio’s father, a former teacher turned community ...

In a month marked by sudden deaths -- from comedian Bob Saget to those 19 poor souls in a fire in the Bronx, the death of trailblazing actor Sidney Poitier should not go unnoticed. Poitier, “whose ...

A film about juvenile delinquency left kids dancing in the aisles to devil’s music–Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock”–and the rock ‘n’ roll generation was spawned. Stars: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, ...