For 25 years, report after report has shown that American students are falling further and further behind the rest of the world intellectually. As the American public school system fails to adapt to this century, schools in China and India produce four times the number of high school graduates as the U.S. and educate these students to a much higher level. Having revealed this frightening decline in his first documentary Two Million Minutes, executive producer Robert A. Compton next searched the world for the best high schools in the hopes of discovering a solution to America’s education crisis. Then, in one of the poorest areas of America, Compton discovered a school that teaches ordinary U.S. children at an extraordinarily high academic level. This school demonstrates that American students are capable of competing academically with the best in the world given the right curriculum, the right teachers, the right inspiration, and expectation for success. Written by Anonymous

Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Michael (or Fresh as he’s well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded housing project with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh’s sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers who Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn’t want to sell drugs anymore, he wants out. Written by ns74212@students.salisbury.edu

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

This documentary follows NBA superstar LeBron James and four of his talented teammates through the trials and tribulations of high school basketball in Ohio and James’ journey to fame.

Plot Details: This opinion reveals major details about the movie’s plot. If “Goodbye Solo” (2008) were a Hollywood movie or a feel-good movie from abroad, the Senegalese immigrant Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane) who drives a cab at night in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and realizes that his septuagenarian tight-lipped white passenger William (Red West) is planning to commit suicide, and opens up his own life to the old white man would revive the man’s will to live. William does not have any apparent friends and blocks inquiries about family, saying his wife left him 30 years ago and that he has no children.Epinions

A former rapper guides his talented nine-year-old daughter through the music business

Biblioburro is the story of a librarian — and a library — like no other. A decade ago, Colombian grade-school teacher Luis Soriano was inspired to spend his weekends bringing a modest collection of precious books, via two hard-working donkeys, to the children of Magdalena Province’s poor and violence-ridden interior. As Soriano braves armed bands, drug traffickers, snakes and heat, his library on hooves carries an inspirational message about education and a better future for Colombia. His simple yet extraordinary effort has attracted worldwide attention — and imitators — but his story has never been better told than in this heartwarming yet unsentimental film. A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting.

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Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to repossess their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm. imdb.com

A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife’s murder, big business, and corporate corruption.