Best Movies About Teachers

Oh captain, my captain! No teacher movie tops the heroism and heartbreak of Dead Poets Society. Robin Williams delivers one of his finest dramatic performances as Mr. Keating, an English teacher at a stuffy prep school, who teaches his students about the richness of life through literature and poetry.

Keating goes beyond stopping to smell the roses. He challenges his students with carpe diem – a Latin phrase meaning “seize the day.” In a world focused on test scores, great colleges, and good jobs, Keating’s students embrace the words of dead poets and discover what it means to have a beating heart.

Dead Poets Society is a film that asks its audience to contemplate the meaning of life, the course of destiny, and what it takes to stand up for the things that matters most. Teacher movies are often uplifting, but Dead Poets Society offers a complex story as bittersweet as life itself.

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