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Sep 6, 2001 · The First Year: Directed by Davis Guggenheim. With Georgene Acosta, Geneviève DeBose, Joy Kraft-Watts, Nate Monley. Follows five inner city Los Angeles teachers during their first year of teaching.
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- Documentary
- Davis Guggenheim
- 2001-09-06
This fascinating documentary chronicles the emotional turmoil of five Los Angeles schoolteachers charged with educating inner-city youth, making it clear that the teachers helping these disadvantaged children are real heroes.
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- Elisabeth Shue
- Davis Guggenheim
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Sep 7, 2023 · Guzmán’s documentary is a people’s microhistory of a nation in transition. He talks to Indigenous peasants about Allende’s land-redistribution programs, miners and factory workers about the...
- Patricio Guzmán
- Devika Girish
- 90 min
Winner 2001 PBS. The First Year. Teachers Documentary Project. Intense and emotional, The First Year cuts through the rhetoric of the national debate about education to remind us what is real—the powerful relationship between a teacher and a student.
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The documentary "The First Year" follows five first year teachers into five schools in the Los Angeles area during the 1999-2000 school year. The teachers are passionate, driven, and full of the idealism of an unjaded educator.
Sep 6, 2001 · The First Year. This fascinating documentary chronicles the emotional turmoil of five Los Angeles schoolteachers charged with educating inner-city youth, making it clear that the teachers helping these disadvantaged children are real heroes. The First Year is currently available to stream on Kanopy.