

The History Boys
“History. It's just one bloody thing after another.”
Overview
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.
Nicholas Hytner
Alan Bennett, Alan Bennett
DNA Films • UK Film Council • BBC Two • National Theatre
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