To Sir With LoveRating: PG 11+
- Duration
- 105 mins
- Year
- 1967
- Director(s)
- Cast
The media might suggest that problems in schools are a recent development - but as this groundbreaking 60s drama underlines, classroom aggravation and failing grades have always been an issue. Mark Thackeray is the black engineer who takes on a job teaching 16-year-olds in a tough London school. His predominantly white pupils are destined for society's scrapheap and they turn their resulting hatred for authority - and their personal prejudices - against him. Undeterred, Thackeray confronts the teens head on, throwing out conventional education methods for a crash course in surviving the adult world.

