Birth of a Nation

1983

Action / Drama

3
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 105 105

riot sex education school juvenile delinquent corporal punishment

Plot summary

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.

Director

Mike Newell Photo
Mike Newell

Top cast

Robert Stephens Photo
Robert Stephens as Vic Griffiths
Jim Broadbent Photo
Jim Broadbent as Geoff Figg
Julia Deakin Photo
Julia Deakin as Deputy Headmistress Grunsell
Ray Mort Photo
Ray Mort as Whittaker
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
752.99 MB
964*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds ...
1.37 GB
1446*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by i-dunning

Harrowingly apocalyptic representation of a British comprehensive school in the early 1980s

Reviewed by alanerbacce 10 / 10

Brilliant and Honest

The reviewer who stated this was about 'thicko' schoolkids is clearly a tadge 'thick' him/her self as clearly he/she was perusing something totally different; maybe it was their usual daily read of The Beano or Comic Cuts or The Telegraph... This superbly directed film is actually about kids who stood up for themselves and refused to be beaten on their bottoms by perverted teachers who appear to get some kick from bullying people smaller than themselves... and Jim Broadbent is brilliant as the radical teacher intent on putting The System to rights... the camera-work and direction is masterful (the opening scene of kids being ;herded and patrolled as though they are fenced cattle is little short of superb) but the real heroes are the kids... they made me feel proud!
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