The History Boys

History. It's just one bloody thing after another.

APPROPIATE

2006 / 109min.

Rating6.624

Genres

Drama

Synopsis

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

Directors

Nicholas Hytner

Actors

James Corden

Adrian Scarborough

Russell Tovey

Sacha Dhawan

Dominic Cooper

Samuel Anderson

Samuel Barnett

Penelope Wilton

Andrew Knott

Richard Griffiths

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