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The History Boys (2006)

The History Boys (2006)

Drama

History. It's just one bloody thing after another.

Release Date: 2006, October 2
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: DNA Films, UK Film Council, BBC Two, National Theatre
Cast: Richard Griffiths, Patrick Godfrey, Frances de la Tour, James Corden, Penelope Wilton, Adrian Scarborough, Jamie Parker, Dominic Cooper, Samuel Barnett, Clive Merrison, Stephen Campbell Moore, Georgia Taylor

Overview:

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

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