The History Boys

The History Boys

6.6IMDb Score
Released:2006-10-02
Genre:Drama
Duration:109 min
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Nicholas Hytner
Actors:Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper, Samuel Barnett, James Corden
Production:DNA Films, UK Film Council, BBC Two, National Theatre

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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