Film Education -

Beowulf

• Relevance: KS3
• Subjects: English, History
• Certificate: 12A
• Synopsis: The legendary hero Beowulf battles the demon Grendel and the beast’s dangerously seductive mother

Boat That Rocked, The

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE, KS3, KS4
• Subjects: Film Studies, Media Studies
• Certificate: 15
• Synopsis: The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the '60s and pop music.

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The

• Relevance: GCSE, KS3
• Subjects: Citizenship, English, History
• Certificate: 12A
• Synopsis: Adaptation of John Boyne's novel about the forbidden friendship between an eight-year-old German boy and a Jewish concentration camp prisoner.

Bright Star

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE, KS3, KS4
• Subjects: English
• Certificate: PG
• Synopsis: Film based on the love affair between the Romantic poet John Keats and 18 year-old Fanny Brawne

Broken Embraces

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers, KS4
• Subjects: Film Studies, Media Studies, Spanish
• Certificate: 15
• Synopsis: Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

Class, The (Entre les Murs)

• Relevance: AS, A2, Dip 1, Dip 2, Dip 3, GCSE
• Subjects: Citizenship, French
• Certificate: 15
• Synopsis: François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighbourhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. But his

Creation

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE
• Subjects: Critical Thinking, General Studies, Religious Education, Science
• Certificate: PG
• Synopsis: Film based on the life of Charles Darwin and his struggle to complete his most controversial book, On the Origin of Species

Crude Awakening, A

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE, KS4
• Subjects: Citizenship, English, Film Studies, Media Studies, Politics
• Certificate: 15
• Synopsis: Documentary about how the citizens of planet earth are sucking dry our most valuable and non-renewable natural resource: oil.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• Relevance: KS2, KS3
• Subjects: Art & Design, Literacy, PSHE & Citizenship
• Certificate: PG
• Synopsis: Diary of a Wimpy Kid microsite including a guide to writing a blog.

End of the Line, The

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE, KS3, KS4
• Subjects: Citizenship, Geography, Science
• Certificate: PG
• Synopsis: A documentary that asks you to imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act.

Kite Runner, The

• Relevance: A2, GCSE
• Subjects: Citizenship, English, Media Studies
• Certificate: 12A
• Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed novel, The Kite Runner is the story of two childhood friends in Afghanistan and the consequences of one boy’s fearful act of betrayal.

Lives of Others, The (Leben der Anderen, Das)

• Relevance: A2, GCSE
• Subjects: General Studies, German, History, Media Studies, Politics
• Certificate: 15
• Synopsis: The Lives of Others begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall. A highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany’s all-powerful secret police, is ordered to spy on a celebrated writer and his

Lovely Bones, The

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE
• Subjects: English, Film Studies
• Certificate: PG
• Synopsis: A 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbour. She tells the story from Heaven

Made in Dagenham

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE
• Subjects: Citizenship, English, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, PSHE & Citizenship
• Certificate: 15
• Synopsis: An educational site for learners aged 15–19 features digital teaching materials exploring the film. Designed for students of Citizenship, History, Media, Film and English GCSE, AS, A2 and equivalent.

Me and Orson Welles

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE
• Subjects: Drama, English, Film Studies, Media Studies, Theatre Studies
• Certificate: 12A
• Synopsis: A teenage student lucks his way into a minor role in the legendary 1937 Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, directed by a youthful Orson Welles. Over the course of a magical week, he makes his Broadway debut, finds romance with an ambitious older

Metropolis

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE
• Subjects: Art & Design, Film Studies, Media Studies, Politics
• Certificate: PG
• Synopsis: Aimed at students of Film and Media studies at GCSE, A Level and equivalent with particular relevance for WJEC GCE Film Studies FM4

Oliver Twist (2005)

• Relevance: KS2
• Subjects: History, Literacy
• Certificate: PG
• Synopsis: Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel.

Persepolis

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE
• Subjects: Art & Design, Citizenship, English, Film Studies, Media Studies, Politics
• Certificate: 12A
• Synopsis: Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.

Sherlock Holmes

• Relevance: KS3, KS4
• Subjects: English, History, Media Studies
• Certificate: 12
• Synopsis: New film interpretation of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous characters updated for a modern audience.

Shifty

• Relevance: A2
• Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, Media Studies
• Certificate: 15
• Synopsis: * Riz Ahmed takes the title role of Shifty, a thriller charting an action packed 24 hours in the life of a young crack cocaine dealer on the outskirts of London. The sudden return home of his best friend sets in motion a chain of events that see Shift

Skin

• Relevance: GCSE
• Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, Media Studies
• Certificate: 12A
• Synopsis: Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Slumdog Millionaire

• Relevance: AS, A2, KS4
• Subjects: Citizenship, English, Film Studies, Media Studies
• Certificate: 15
• Synopsis: An eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' Arrested on suspicion of cheating, he tells the police the incredible story of his life

Sounds Like Teen Spirit

• Relevance: GCSE, KS3
• Subjects: Citizenship, Media Studies, Music
• Certificate: 12A
• Synopsis: An affectionate and humorous documentary which follows the journey of 4 lovable losers from very different backgrounds and parts of the continent to the hugely popular Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Star Trek (2009)

• Relevance: AS, A2, GCSE
• Subjects: Film Studies, Media Studies
• Certificate: 12A
• Synopsis: A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members.