Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "one-room-schoolhouse"

1. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance

The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.

Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Rachel Lindsay Greenbush

Votes: 26,934

2. Jane Eyre (2011)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Su Elliot

Votes: 93,102 | Gross: $11.24M

3. Anne of Green Gables (1985)

TV-G | 100 min | Drama, Family

An orphan girl, sent to an elderly brother and sister by mistake, charms her new home and community with her fiery spirit and imagination.

Stars: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Patricia Hamilton

Votes: 22,678

4. Avonlea (1990–1996)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A young girl is sent to live with her late mother's relatives in Prince Edward Island. Set in the early 1900's, the series follows her adventures, as well as that of her family and the town's people as she grows up in Avonlea.

Stars: Zachary Bennett, Lally Cadeau, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith

Votes: 4,856

5. Pete's Dragon (1977)

G | 128 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit.

Directors: Don Chaffey, Don Bluth | Stars: Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 26,541 | Gross: $40.10M

6. The White Ribbon (2009)

R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 77,708 | Gross: $2.22M

7. When Calls the Heart (2013 TV Movie)

TV-G | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young teacher in 1910, fears leaving her comfortable world in the city. But when she accepts a teaching position in a frontier town, she finds new purpose and love with a handsome Royal Canadian Mountie.

Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Maggie Grace, Stephen Amell, Poppy Drayton, Daniel Sharman

Votes: 2,256

8. Tom and Huck (1995)

PG | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Two best friends witness a murder and embark on a series of adventures in order to prove the innocence of the man wrongly accused of the crime.

Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Charles Rocket, Eric Schweig

Votes: 11,668 | Gross: $23.74M

9. Before Night Falls (2000)

R | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.

Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovani Florido

Votes: 26,389 | Gross: $4.22M

10. Fortress (1985)

TV-MA | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After being kidnapped for ransom by four criminals, a schoolteacher and her students flee into a cave and build fortifications in anticipation of a decisive battle with their captors.

Director: Arch Nicholson | Stars: Sean Garlick, Rachel Ward, Elaine Cusick, Laurie Moran

Votes: 3,548

11. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy

In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.

Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería

Votes: 20,705

12. The Last Wave (1977)

PG | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow

Votes: 11,038

13. Pelle the Conqueror (1987)

PG-13 | 157 min | Drama

When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.

Director: Bille August | Stars: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath

Votes: 11,874 | Gross: $2.05M

14. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)

Approved | 34 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

In a small town, a brewing romantic rivalry with a local tough and a school-teacher culminates in a terrifying ride in the night.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney | Stars: Bing Crosby, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires

Votes: 5,827

15. Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 81 min | Drama, Family, Musical

Discover the magic and warmth of Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, based on the inspiring story of living legend Dolly Parton’s remarkable upbringing in rural Tennessee.

Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Alyvia Alyn Lind, Jennifer Nettles, Ricky Schroder, Gerald McRaney

Votes: 2,254

16. Child Bride (1938)

62 min | Drama

A schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls.

Director: Harry Revier | Stars: Shirley Mills, Bob Bollinger, Warner Richmond, Diana Durrell

Votes: 1,096

17. Bully (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 98 min | Documentary

A documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America.

Director: Lee Hirsch | Stars: Alex Libby, Lona Johnson, Kelby Johnson, Bob Johnson

Votes: 10,544 | Gross: $4.04M

18. Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

Director: Jo Kastner | Stars: Joel Courtney, Jake T. Austin, Katherine McNamara, Noah Munck

Votes: 1,034

19. Songcatcher (2000)

PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Music

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in ... See full summary »

Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Janet McTeer, Michael Harding, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin

Votes: 3,684 | Gross: $3.05M

20. Warm Springs (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama

The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson

Votes: 3,328

21. The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror

A friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth's magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters.

Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson, Alec Mango

Votes: 1,365

22. A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson

Votes: 1,029

23. The Deadly Trackers (1973)

PG | 110 min | Drama, Western

A Sheriff, who negotiates with bank robbers, ends up getting his family killed during their escape. The Sheriff chases the gang into Mexico on his own. While attempting to exact his vengeance, he is at odds with a Mexican lawman.

Directors: Barry Shear, Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Harris, Rod Taylor, Al Lettieri, Neville Brand

Votes: 1,021

24. Love's Unending Legacy (2007 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A widow (Erin Cottrell) and her son return home to be near her parents.

Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Victor Browne, Samantha Smith

Votes: 1,743

25. To Be and to Have (2002)

Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, Family

A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.

Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel Thouvenin, Guillaume

Votes: 8,420 | Gross: $0.78M

26. The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer (2018)

Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Family

In this adaptation of Mark Twain's timeless classic, Thomasina Sawyer and Huck Finn must decide what to do after witnessing the pinning of a murder on an innocent man.

Directors: Brian Brooks II, Jesse Gi, Chester Howie, Thanika Jenjesda, Kelley Kali, David R. Liu, Federico Torrado Tobón, Tom Watts, Benjamin Wilkinson | Stars: Corwin Allard, Brandon Beets, Corey Bente, Joseph Bezenek

Votes: 216

27. The Better Angels (2014)

PG | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood in the harsh wilderness of Indiana and the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him for ever and the two women who guided him to immortality.

Director: A.J. Edwards | Stars: Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger, Brit Marling, Wes Bentley

Votes: 1,465

28. Paul Bunyan (1958)

Approved | 17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The life, career, and challenges of the legendary giant lumberjack.

Director: Les Clark | Stars: Bill Lee, The Mellowmen Quartet, Thurl Ravenscroft, Max Smith

Votes: 1,189

29. Johnny Tiger (1966)

102 min | Drama

A widowed schoolteacher arrives at a Seminole Reservation in the Florida Everglades with his three children. He's determined to bring these Indians into the modern world but his contempt for their ways meets with resistance.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Robert Taylor, Geraldine Brooks, Chad Everett, Brenda Scott

Votes: 80

30. Four Sons (1928)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, War

A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.

Director: John Ford | Stars: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Votes: 920

31. Captain Boycott (1947)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, History

In 1880 Ireland, poor farmers rebel against the abuses of their British landlords.

Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker, Alastair Sim

Votes: 430

32. The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)

Approved | 75 min | Drama

Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees".

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Norman Foster, Charlotte Henry, Dorothy Libaire, Tommy Bupp

Votes: 84

33. Dora's Dunking Doughnuts (1933)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Music

A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.

Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Andy Clyde, Ethel Sykes, Bud Jamison, Shirley Temple

Votes: 294

34. Just Pals (1920)

Not Rated | 50 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

Small-town tramp befriends runaway boy.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Buck Jones, Helen Ferguson, Georgie Stone, Duke R. Lee

Votes: 503

35. Nattseilere (1986)

113 min | Adventure, Drama

On the island of Senja in Northern Norway in 1877, Båremor, a 14-year-old girl is washed ashore almost dead. No-one knows her and she remembers nothing of her past. A poor family of ... See full summary »

Director: Tor M. Tørstad | Stars: Vera Holte, Helge Jordal, Per Oscarsson, Frode Rasmussen

Votes: 221

36. The Little Teacher (1915)

21 min | Short, Comedy

The new school teacher fresh from the city struggles with her unruly bumpkin students, while she awaits the arrival of her fiancé.

Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Owen Moore

Votes: 69

37. The Kid's Last Ride (1941)

Approved | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western

The Range Busters are hired as lawmen by the notorious Breeden Brothers, two-thirds of trio of three ruthless outlaws now disguised and renamed as solid citizens.

Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Ray Corrigan, John 'Dusty' King, Max Terhune, Elmer

Votes: 95

38. Goodbye, Miss Turlock (1948)

Passed | 11 min | Short, Family

Oscar-winning short film has an adult looking back fondly at his childhood when he was taught in a one-room schoolhouse by Miss Turlock, a stern, but caring and respected teacher.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: John Nesbitt, Nana Bryant, Fred Fisher, Norman Ollestad

Votes: 249

39. Valley of the Tennessee (1944)

29 min | Documentary, Short

One of 26 documentary shorts produced by the U.S. Overseas Film Bureau between 1942 and 1945,and intended to show foreigners something about America and it's values, this one focuses on the... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Hammid | Stars: Fredric March, Franklin D. Roosevelt

Votes: 19

40. Mon maître d'école (2015)

82 min | Documentary, Family

When Marcel Pagnol meets The Class

Director: Émilie Thérond

Votes: 80

41. The Country School Teacher (1953)

15 min | Documentary, Short

A look at a teacher at a one-teacher school.

Director: Shan Benson

42. Santa Susana (2007)

14 min | Short, Drama

Therese knows the end is near. As her father's home nears foreclosure and her life at school the subject of ridicule and scrutiny, Therese plans her escape from Santa Susana. But Gerard just wants to talk.

Director: James Day | Stars: Christopher Almaguer-Delgado, Victor Rubalcava, Kenneth Scott, Christy Villasenor

43. One-Room Schoolhouses (1935)

Unrated | 1 min | Short, Documentary

Images of a one-room schoolhouse and playing children.

Directors: Karl Collins, Elmer Myers

Votes: 70

44. 26 Men (1957–1959)
Episode: The Torch (1959)

26 min | Western

When teacher after teach is run out of a small gold mining town, Rynning is order to investigate. His first day in the schoolhouse involves some two-fisted lessons.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, Grant Withers, Dale Cummings

45. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Belfry (1956)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Mullaney, Patricia Hitchcock, Dabbs Greer

Votes: 859

46. The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode: The Witch (1963)

TV-PG | 51 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A habitually lying little girl falsely accuses Kimble of chasing her through the woods, and it puts his life in greater danger.

Director: Andrew McCullough | Stars: David Janssen, Pat Crowley, Madeleine Sherwood, Arch Johnson

Votes: 298

47. Fury (1955–1960)
Episode: The Test (1956)

30 min | Drama, Family, Western

Joey befriends a new boy in school, but the friendship is discouraged by the boy's demanding father who requires his son to spend all of his free time studying in order to excel in school.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Peter Graves, Bobby Diamond, William Fawcett, Ann Robinson

Votes: 16

48. Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode: The Teacher (1958)

Not Rated | 26 min | Western

Questions of revising the Civil War put a schoolteacher in gunsights until Paladin decides to make a stand, urging those who may find the truth she teaches painful to do the same.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Boone, Marian Seldes, Andrew Duggan, Jack Albertson

Votes: 147

49. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Monster of Walnut Grove (1976)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Passing the Oleson's house while out with Mary for a night of window soaping on a spooky Halloween eve, Laura hears a loud argument and peers in the window just in time to witness Mr. ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 339

50. The Rebel (1959–1961)
Episode: School Days (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Realizing Yuma is literate and in admiration of his ability to stand up to illiterate Armbruster family, Liam O'Shea offers Yuma a temporary schoolmaster job and he gains the affection of Peggy of which Troy Armbruster is jealous.

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Nick Adams, Fintan Meyler, Warren Oates, Olan Soule

Votes: 54