 | The Miracle Worker
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $7.10 This one's not a classroom teacher. Anne Sullivan teaches blind deaf mute Helen Keller to communicate.One of the few movies that can get me misty. Patty Duke was youngest Oscar winner(at the time).
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 | Blackboard Jungle
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $12.23 First movie to attract attention to Sidney Poitier. He plays a high school student of Glenn Ford.
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 | To Sir, With Love
Buy used from: $36.98 1967.This time Poitier is the teacher. 1967 was a very hot year for Poitier. Oscar nom for 'In The Heat Of The Night'. Also starred in 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner' that year. Hit song by Lulu.
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 | The Birds (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.99 Suzanne Pleshette, who recently passed away, plays my 2nd fave onscreen teacher, a heroine. Plus I needed an excuse to add at least ONE other topnotch film beyond
my top choice THE MIRACLE WORKER.
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![Conrack [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21SAD3MHCKL._SL75_.jpg) | Conrack [VHS]
Buy used from: $45.00 Jon Voight in difficult circumstances accepts a challenging position as a teacher of underprivileged black youngsters.
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 | Freedom Writers (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.94 Pretty good Hilary Swank vehicle.
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 | Stand and Deliver
Buy new: $5.49 / Used from: $2.10 Oscar nom for Olmos.
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 | Mr. Holland's Opus
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.59 Oscar nom for Dreyfuss.
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 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Buy used from: $11.61 1939. Oscar-winning role for Donat.
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![Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZM225S1ZL._SL75_.jpg) | Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969) [VHS]
Buy used from: $4.98 1969 remake.
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 | Wonder Boys
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.56 Most noteworthy aspect of this film was that the song THINGS HAVE CHANGED won the Oscar for Best Song and served to regain attention to its singer Bob Dylan.
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 | The Browning Version (Criterion Collection)
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.00 Effective 1951 British drama about a troubled teacher, stars Michael Redgrave, father of Vanessa and Lynn
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 | The Browning Version
Buy used from: $3.96 A remake.
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 | Lean on Me
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $2.55 The title song made the 'hit parade' twice, released decades apart. I think the only other hit to do that was
Stand By Me(also rekindled and rereleased because of a hit movie from Rob Reiner(former Meathead!)
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 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.24 Dominating teacher in a private girls'
school affects the lives of her students and her own. Oscar win for Maggie Smith. From the novel.
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 | My Fair Lady (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $16.99 As with my top choice, perhaps not fair to include this and the movie , since they're not CLASSROOM teachers. Note that this movie makes it onto my Listmania: MUSICALS THAT GUYS CAN TOLERATE.
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 | Educating Rita
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.75 Oscar nom for Julie Walters.
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 | Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $6.50 Oscar nom for Robin Williams.
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 | Dead Poets Society (Special Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $8.71 Ditto.
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 | Music of the Heart (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.36 One of Meryl Streep's record-setting 14 female acting Oscar nominations. 1999.
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 | The Emperor's Club (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.77 Interesting drama examines a teacher's life.
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 | The Paper Chase
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.99 Well received drama about another dominating teacher, this time a prof at Harvard.
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 | The Great Debaters
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $1.92 Recent role for Washington. 2008.
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 | Up the Down Staircase
Buy used from: $11.99 Saw it many moons ago but can hardly remember it at all, except that it's about a young female teacher in a rough
school.
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 | Dangerous Minds
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.69 Haven't seen it. Has it really been 13 years since this movie came out? Michelle sure faded from major exposure since the years when she drew so much male attention!
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 | The Principal
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.94 Haven't seen this one either.
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 | The Substitute
Buy used from: $6.73 Or this one.
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 | Teachers
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.55 Ditto.
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