The History Boys

Comedy adapted from the play by Alan Bennett. Eight bright, funny history students in the mid 1980s are pursuing an undergraduate place at the country's two finest universities. Their headmaster is obsessed with breaking into the ranks of those schools that regularly send boys up to Oxford and Cambridge and enlists Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore), a shrewd newcomer, to coach the boys into intellectual shape for the trials ahead. Seduced though they are by the exam-busting bag of tricks offered by the temporary supply teacher, the boys are torn by their loyalty to the hugely eccentric, poetry-spouting English master Hector (Richard Griffiths) and the regular diet of nourishing facts and figures dispensed by Mrs Lintott (Frances de la Tour), their history mistress. As they prepare for the daunting admissions process, the journey of the History Boys becomes as much about how education works as where education leads.

Special Features

Biographies, Commentary: Nicholas Hytner (Director) and Alan Bennett (Writer), Documentaries: 'History Boys Around the World: The Tour Diaries', 'Pass it Along: The History Boys On Screen'

Actors: Dominic Cooper, Sacha Dhawan, Samuel Anderson, Russell Tovey, Jamie Parker, James Corden, Adrian Scarborough, Stephen Campbell Moore, Frances de la Tour, Andrew Knott, Samuel Barnett, Richard Griffiths

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 109 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

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