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Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This drama is based on events in the life of Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. Clark used persistence and unconventional methods to reach his students and encourage them to reach their full potential.
2) Unexpected
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Samantha Abbott is a dedicated and passionate teacher at an inner-city Chicago high school. Just as she is coming to terms with her school closing, Samantha faces some life-changing and unexpected news: she is pregnant. After breaking the news to her live-in boyfriend John and opinionated mother, Samantha learns that one of her most promising students, Jasmine, has landed in a similar but very different situation.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Whoopi Goldberg returns as the lounge singer who goes undercover as a nun to help an ailing inner-city school.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Doubt: 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion...