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Boarders
TV Show 2024

Boarders

Brace yourselves - the new kids are here. Five talented black scholarship students, and an elite private school with a reputation problem. One of them will have to change...

Cheat
0h 45m
TV Show 2019

Cheat

University lecturer Dr Leah Dale has always prided herself on her academic integrity so when final year student Rose, submits a suspiciously top-grade essay, Leah is quick to call her out. But there’s more going on than meets the eye as Rose takes the challenge as a personal affront, and what begins as a seemingly open and shut case of academic deception soon spirals out of control.

Marguerite's Theorem
1h 54m
Movie 2023

Marguerite's Theorem

The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.

Odyssey
1h 42m
Movie 2023

Odyssey

Six California kids test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a problem-solving competition requiring mechanical, creative and intellectual skills. With little money and zero adult participation, the teens build a robot to tell a story about bullying, exclusion and mental health. But how does their solution measure up?

Juvenilia
Movie 2023

Juvenilia

Staying is a choice.

Sisyphus Unbound
Movie 2023

Sisyphus Unbound

Virgil, a college writing student, hopes to have his latest story published, but he must first get over one major hurdle before his work gets out to the world, his mercurial writing professor Richard Laymen.

Publish or Perish
1h 40m
Movie 2023

Publish or Perish

A tenure-obsessed English professor accidentally takes a student's life. Desperate to protect his career, he makes a fateful decision, sending his life spiraling out of control.

Honor Society
1h 37m
Movie 2022

Honor Society

Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian-like plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael.

Thomas vs. Thomas (A Sensational Theory Regarding an Insignificant Life in the Multiverse)
1h 38m
Movie 2022

Thomas vs. Thomas (A Sensational Theory Regarding an Insignificant Life in the Multiverse)

A quantum physicist is about to have the breakthrough of the century, but as he closes in on his goal, versions of him from parallel realities force him to untangle the mystery of his own existence; how to be a present father for his son.

Quanta
1h 33m
Movie 2020

Quanta

A physicist's life-long work comes to fruition when he is reluctantly partnered with a gifted young assistant. Ego divides them when they receive an unknown signal from space.

SECULAR | Aa'La'Ma'Ni
0h 50m
Movie 2025

SECULAR | Aa'La'Ma'Ni

How is secularism depicted in films? The term "Aa'La'Ma'Ni" means worldly in Arabic. It's significant in the Middle East, where secularism is controversial since the majority often link secularism with atheism and anti-religious sentiment. SECULAR | Aa'La'Ma'Ni, a documentary based on academic research, explores the depiction of secularism in Middle Eastern cinema and TV channels. Filmmakers and regional producers openly discuss religion, sectarianism, authorities, minorities, and industry challenges.

All the Little Things
0h 40m
Movie 2024

All the Little Things

An accomplished molecular biologist moves out of the lab in a quest to make an encyclopedia documenting all the fruit fly species in North America.

Little Witch Academia
0h 24m
TV Show 2017

Little Witch Academia

When she was a little girl, Atsuko "Akko" Kagari saw a magic show performed by a witch named Shiny Chariot. From that day on she wanted to be just like her. Enrolling at Luna Nova Magical Academy and having no magical background, can she become a witch like her idol Shiny Chariot?

VIP Gymnasium
TV Show 2016

VIP Gymnasium

Trying to get Guo Xiao Mei - an heiress, fujoshi and magazine editor to join his gym, Gu Zhi pretends to be gay in order to fulfill her wishes. With her sharp fujoshi eyes, Xiao Mei immediately pairs him up with the gym's really hot boss, Qin Nan. Wanting to have a front row seat to their real-life 'romance', Xiao Mei agrees to sign up for a 5-year VIP Diamond membership. Ofcourse, to actually keep her from withdrawing her gym membership and/or buying up the whole gym, she's going to need proof of their relationship, isn't she?

University Challenge
0h 22m
TV Show 2014

University Challenge

After a 25 year absence the popular TV quiz show returns, featuring all 8 universities in a battle of New Zealand's best!

Let Her Speak
0h 14m
Movie 2019

Let Her Speak

A merited female scientist is at an international conference and realises that a male moderator is explaining her own theory back at her, until a remark from the audience wakes both speakers and listeners.

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
1h 4m
Movie 2018

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.

Lewis
1h 30m
TV Show 2007

Lewis

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
1h 25m
Movie 2017

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. They have been unapologetically Black for 150 years. For the first time ever, their story is told.

The Argument (with annotations)
0h 20m
Movie 2017

The Argument (with annotations)

What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. And whatever exactly that thing is, the latest by one of Canada’s most ingenious auteurs is another astounding feat of cerebral and cinephilic dexterity.

Rosehill
1h 18m
Movie 2015

Rosehill

After receiving some bad news, a New York escapes to Southern Indiana to visit her old friend, a frustrated sex researcher. The two women embark on a local road trip through a place that has seen better days. Part road trip, part meditation, part improvised fiction, part documentary, Rosehill is a film about crisis and eternal change, the darkness and resilience of the human spirit.

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