The History Boys

About The History Boys

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.

The History Boys is a 2006 drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner. Released in October 2006, it runs 109 minutes.

The film is filed under LGBT teen, history, yorkshire, and northern england. The film began as a stage production.

Richard Griffiths stars as Hector, Stephen Campbell Moore as Irwin, Dominic Cooper as Dakin, and Samuel Barnett as Posner. The screenplay is by Alan Bennett. Produced by BBC Two.

Hurricane Bianca, Get Real, and Another Country make useful companions to The History Boys, all filed under education, gay theme, and high school. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 225 votes and it carries a R rating.