The History Boys
211 votes
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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2006-10-02
Runtime: 109 mins
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama
Original title: The History Boys
Production Companies: DNA Films, UK Film Council, BBC Two, National Theatre
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Cast
Richard Griffiths
Stephen Campbell Moore
Dominic Cooper
Samuel Barnett
James Corden
Russell Tovey
Samuel Anderson
Jamie Parker
Andrew Knott
Sacha Dhawan
Clive Merrison
Frances de la Tour
Penelope Wilton
Adrian Scarborough
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