The History Boys

History. It's just one bloody thing after another.

• Rated 6.6 out of 10
• Movie
• 2006
• 1h 49m
• Drama

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.

Director

Nicholas Hytner

Starring

Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper, Samuel Barnett