Norman Twain
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Lean on me: A bat-and-bullhorn wielding principal in New Jersey turns a failing school around with his tough love methods.
Stand and deliver: A teacher in a Los Angeles barrio inspires his students to excel at math and to pass the Calculus Advanced Placement Test.
2) Lean on me
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
This is the fact-based story of high school principal Joe Clark, who armed himself with a bullhorn and a Louisville Slugger and slammed the door on losers at Eastside High in Paterson, New Jersey.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A vicious hate crime at an elite New England college thrusts the new dean of students into the investigation. When charged with maintaining order on campus, she is forced to examine her own feelings about race. Based on the critically acclaimed play, a compelling movie that examines the emotional fallout of prejudice within the cloistered walls of academia.
4) Heavens fall
Publisher
Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A tragic true story of nine black men who were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women, quickly tried, and sentenced to the electric chair. Forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lone man defends them.
5) Lean on me
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of New Jersey high school principal Joe Clark, who wins the support and respect of his students for his controversial methods in ridding the school of violent students and drug dealers.
