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The Bad Kids

An extraordinary principal’s journey to help her students realize their potential

GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 101 minutes

The Bad Kids

An extraordinary principal’s journey to help her students realize their potential

GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 84 minutes

Daughters of the Forest

A group of girls in a remote forest in Paraguay are transformed at an experimental high school where they learn to protect the threatened forest and build a future for themselves.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 56 minutes

Earth Seasoned: #GapYear

Diagnosed with learning difficulties, Tori finds her greatest teacher in nature, spending a "gap year" living semi-primitively with four other young women in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 75 minutes

Hi-Ho Mistahey!

Fourteen-year-old Shannen Koostachin launched a campaign to build a suitable school for the children of the Cree community of Attawapiskat in 2008.

National Film Board of Canada | 2013 | 99 minutes

The Queen of Silence

A deaf girl from an illegal Roma settling escapes the brutal reality of everyday life into the world of rhythm, dance and imagination.

Deckert Distribution | 2014 | 80 minutes

School's Out

A year in the life of a forest kindergarten in Switzerland where being outdoors and unstructured play are the main components.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 36 minutes

Seats At The Table

Portrays a remarkable college class which connects university students with incarcerated students discussing Russian literature at a maximum security juvenile facility.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 87 minutes

Still Waters

In his tiny, one-room, after hours, free school in Brooklyn, Stephen Haff teaches forty Latinx kids reading, creative writing and Latin.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 79 minutes

Welcome to Commie High

Welcome To Commie High explores an experiment in public education: Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 94 minutes