The History Boys (2006)

Directors

Nicholas Hytner

Cast

Samuel Anderson, James Corden, Stephen Campbell Moore, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Andrew Knott, Russell Tovey, Jamie Parker, Dominic Cooper, Samuel Barnett, Sacha Dhawan, Clive Merrison, Penelope Wilton, Adrian Scarborough, Georgia Taylor

The story

In 1983 at a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight sixth-form students – Crowther, Posner, Dakin, Timms, Akthar, Lockwood, Scripps and Rudge – have achieved the school's best-ever A-Level results and are preparing for a seventh-term entrance examination in History in hopes of winning places at Oxford or Cambridge. Their well-liked General Studies teacher, known as "Hector", teaches alongside their deputy head and History teacher, Mrs Lintott. The ambitious headmaster, "Felix", hires a young temporary tutor, Tom Irwin, to sharpen the boys' exam technique.

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