Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "educational-film"
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Green Book (2018)
PG-13 | 130 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Director: Peter Farrelly | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco
Votes: 572,595 | Gross: $85.08M
2. Pinky and the Brain (1995–1998)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Pinky and Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice who reside in the research facility. Brain is self-centered and scheming; Pinky is good-natured but feeble-minded. In each episode, Brain devises a new plan to take over the world.
Stars: Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, Tress MacNeille, Frank Welker
Votes: 32,862
3. The Proud Family (2001–2005)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny Proud as she does her best to navigate through the early years of teend-dom.
Stars: Kyla Pratt, Tommy Davidson, Jo Marie Payton, Paula Jai Parker
Votes: 8,435
4. This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Unrated | 98 min | Documentary
Kirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board.
Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Kirby Dick, Kimberly Peirce, Darren Aronofsky, Atom Egoyan
Votes: 28,626 | Gross: $0.30M
5. Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
TV-14 | 30 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.
Stars: Nikolay Drozdov, Kenneth Branagh, Avery Brooks, Craig Sechler
Votes: 6,886
6. Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990 TV Movie)
Unrated | 26 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Many different cartoon stars like Bugs Bunny, the Muppet Babies and Garfield join forces to convince a teenager that drugs aren't cool.
Directors: Milton Gray, Marsh Lamore, Robert Shellhorn, Mike Svayko, Karen Peterson | Stars: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Jeff Bergman, Townsend Coleman, Wayne Collins
Votes: 1,316
7. The Wiggles Movie (1997)
G | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The Wiggles throw a surprise party for Dorothy the Dinosaur, while she goes after a magician who takes Greg's magic wand to become popular.
Director: Dean Covell | Stars: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Greg Page, Anthony Field
Votes: 528
8. Language of Love 2000 (2004)
96 min | Drama
Sabine is in love with Julia, but pulled simultaneously to the irresistible television program host Stella Moon.
Director: Anders Lennberg | Stars: Regina Lund, Jan Mybrand, Bert-Åke Varg, Kim Anderzon
Votes: 601
9. Totally Baked (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Meet Dave Bertman, a tightly wound 37 year-old father of one. Bertman's "higher" education begins when medical marijuana activists wielding "loaded" weapons interrupt a planned reunion ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Abbott | Stars: John Oates, Thomas Lyons, Craig Shoemaker, Heather Sossaman
Votes: 888
10. Kink (2001–2005)
TV-MA | 30 min | Documentary
The subjects profiled in KINK embrace their sexual fantasies - and aren't afraid to share them. Unashamedly inviting the cameras into their private lives, they reveal their innermost ... See full summary »
Stars: Black Cherry Sherry, Eliese MacKinnon
Votes: 69
11. That's Sexploitation! (2013)
136 min | Documentary
This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past.
Directors: Donald A. Davis, David F. Friedman, Frank Henenlotter, Arthur King | Stars: David F. Friedman, Gal Friday, Frank Henenlotter, Albert Cadabra
Votes: 383
12. Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959)
Approved | 27 min | Animation, Short, Family
Donald's goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be useful in real life. Through this journey it is shown how numbers are more than graphs and charts, they are geometry, music and magical living things.
Directors: Les Clark, Joshua Meador, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Hannah, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Jane Fowler, Paul Frees, Clarence Nash, Roman Yanez
Votes: 2,461
13. Seksi on hauskaa selvinpäin (1991 Video)
2 min | Short, Drama
Stars: Vilma Melasniemi, Maija Vilkkumaa
14. Test Tube Babies (1948)
70 min | Drama
A happily-married couple having no luck with starting their family finally discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, ... See full summary »
Director: W. Merle Connell | Stars: Dorothy Duke, William Thomason, Timothy Farrell, John Michael
Votes: 421
15. The Living Desert (1953)
G | 69 min | Family, Documentary
Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and description.
Director: James Algar | Star: Winston Hibler
Votes: 1,716
16. The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
52 min | Documentary, History
James Burke explores key moments in Western History where new knowledge in science changed the way the modern Western world thinks.
Stars: James Burke, Roger Avon, Peter Sproule, Jeff Pirie
Votes: 623
17. Powers of Ten (1977)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Beginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person's hand.
Directors: Charles Eames, Ray Eames | Star: Philip Morrison
Votes: 2,371
18. A Quarter Million Teenagers (1964)
Not Rated | 15 min | Documentary, Short
250,000 teens! That sounds like a recipe for fun! Uh-oh: in fact, it's the number who got sexually transmitted diseases last year (according to this health-class short). "Perhaps it's time ... See full summary »
Director: Robert B. Churchill
Votes: 10
19. Surviving Edged Weapons (1988)
TV-MA | 84 min | Documentary, Action, Crime
A documentary issued to police in the 80's on how to survive edged-based attacks, primarily blades -- with often comical and novel examples.
Director: Dennis Anderson | Stars: Mickey Dawes, Leo T. Gaje Jr., Dean Gilmore, Kathleen A. Handal
Votes: 561
20. Grass (1999)
R | 80 min | Documentary, History
The history of the American government's war on marijuana in the 20th century.
Director: Ron Mann | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Harry J. Anslinger, George Bush, Cab Calloway
Votes: 3,631 | Gross: $0.31M
21. Hide and Seek (1996)
Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary, Drama
Mixes documentary interviews of memories of lesbian adolescence with the story of the 12-year-old girl Lou discovering her sexuality in 1960s America.
Director: Su Friedrich | Stars: Chelsea Holland, Ariel Mara, Linzy Taylor, Sarah Jane Smith
Votes: 224
22. Boys Beware (1962)
10 min | Short, Crime, Drama
This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers.
Star: Sid Davis
Votes: 637
23. Duck and Cover (1952)
Not Rated | 9 min | Animation, Short, Family
Instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.
Director: Anthony Rizzo | Stars: George Winslow, Leo M. Langlois III, Ray J. Mauer, Robert Middleton
Votes: 1,101
24. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History, News
Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy. Loud shouts come from both sides of the issue as JFK stands by his decisions.
Director: Robert Drew | Stars: James Lipscomb, John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy
Votes: 843
25. Sesame Street 4-D (2003)
11 min | Comedy, Short, Family
This 4D movie tells the story of Elmo and the gang's attempts to save the Sesame Street Film Festival.
Director: John Rust | Stars: Kevin Clash, Caroll Spinney, Jerry Nelson, Eric Jacobson
Votes: 23
26. Don't Be a Sucker (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, History, War
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States to recruit Nazi sympathizers from the ranks of American racists.
Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Robert Adler, Richard Alexander, Robert Bailey
Votes: 350
27. Fit (I) (2010)
108 min | Drama, Romance
Takes a look at gay and straight love among the new millennials. Everything from secret crushes to homophobic attitudes are revealed by the rambunctious students taking Drama and Dance from... See full summary »
Director: Rikki Beadle Blair | Stars: Duncan MacInnes, Ludvig Bonin, Sasha Frost, Lydia Toumazou
Votes: 501
28. The Story of Anyburg U.S.A. (1957)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The city of Anyburg decides its traffic situation has gotten out of hand, so it puts the automobile on trial. The trial (conducted in rhyme) starts with a car that was in a hit-and-run ... See full summary »
Director: Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Hans Conried, Dal McKennon, Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Thompson
Votes: 232
29. Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (2002– )
360 min | Documentary, History
The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.
Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Gordon Brown
Votes: 549
30. The Story of Menstruation (1946)
10 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
A basic explanation of the purpose and process of menstruation, told largely with diagrams (and completely avoiding the subject of sex).
Director: Jack Kinney | Star: Gloria Blondell
Votes: 537
31. The New Girl (1960)
31 min | Short
To secure a lucrative government contract, a company agrees to not discriminate against minorities and integrates its office. Then all-white staff is horrified when an African-American secretary is hired.
Director: Lewis Freedman | Stars: Edward Asner, Chase Crosley, Gail Fisher, Peg Murray
Votes: 50
32. Le clitoris (2016)
3 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris. In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown history.
Director: Lori Malépart-Traversy
Votes: 165
33. USS VD: Ship of Shame (1942)
46 min | Action, Drama, War
This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas. Actual victims of such sexually ... See full summary »
Stars: Keefe Brasselle, Cliff Clark, Dorothy Granger, Eddie Hall
Votes: 108
34. Signal 30 (1959)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Documentary
The results of serious traffic accidents caused by careless driving are displayed.
Director: Richard Wayman | Star: Wayne Byers
Votes: 124
35. Linda's Film on Menstruation (1974)
18 min | Short, Drama
Presents the story of a fifteen-year-old girl who experiences her menstrual period, describing the reaction of the girl and her sixteen-year-old boyfriend as they learn more about the subject of menstruation.
Director: Linda Feferman | Stars: Mady Kaplan, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 53
36. Elmo's Magic Cookbook (2001 Video)
Not Rated | 48 min | Family
Join Elmo and his Sesame Street pals on their most magical adventure ever! The action begins when they encounter the wish-granting Genie of the Magic Cookbook!
Directors: Lisa Simon, Ted May, Jon Stone | Stars: Emeril Lagasse, Heather Headley, Kevin Clash, Martin P. Robinson
Votes: 32
37. David Macaulay: Cathedral (1986 TV Movie)
Unrated | 60 min | Documentary, Animation
David Macaulay and Caroline Berg explore medieval cathedral architecture through the fictional animated story of the rebuilding of such a cathedral in the middle ages after a disastrous fire.
Director: Tim King | Stars: David Macaulay, Caroline Berg, Derek Jacobi, Geoffrey Matthews
Votes: 62
38. Narcotics: Pit of Despair (1967) (1967)
29 min | Short, Drama
In this dark vision of drug use, a former classmate turned dealer seduces a high-school student into drug addiction.
Director: Mel Marshall | Stars: Kevin Tighe, Gerald LeRoy, Julie Conners, Patrick Miller
Votes: 318
39. Rhythm Is It! (2004)
100 min | Documentary, Music
RHYTHM IS IT! records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. The orchestra ventured out of the ivory tower of high culture into ... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas Grube, Enrique Sánchez Lansch | Stars: Simon Rattle, Royston Maldoom, Susannah Broughton, Marie Theinert
Votes: 716
40. Melody (1953)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Family
An owl teaches his class full of birds about melody. It's all around in nature. Only birds and man can sing; man "sings" even when he speaks. We see a quick survey of the stages of life, as... See full summary »
Directors: Ward Kimball, Charles Nichols | Stars: Sue Allen, Judson Conlon, Mac McLean, Loulie Jean Norman
Votes: 339
41. The Talking Car (1953)
13 min | Short, Drama, Family
Jack and Mary (and their dog, Rags) are walking down the street when a talking car stops them and begins lecturing them about traffic safety.
Star: Larry Thor
Votes: 20
42. What to Do on a Date (1951)
11 min | Short, Drama, Family
A shy boy wants to ask out a girl on a date - but how can he know what she'd like to do, or what kind of activity would be best suited for getting to know her?
Director: Ted Peshak | Star: Robert Casey
Votes: 378
43. The ABC of Hand Tools (1946)
31 min | Animation, Short
Animated documentary short which discusses the proper way to care for and handle tools.
Director: Bill Roberts
Votes: 30
44. Red Asphalt (1964)
13 min | Documentary, Short
A PSA about drunk driving and safe driving by the California Highway Department.
Votes: 24
45. Rainbow Brite: San Diego Zoo Adventure (1986 Video)
43 min | Short, Adventure, Family
Pete & Tracy notice something strange is happening to all of the colors of the zoo animals; they try to enlist the help of Rainbow Brite, not knowing that it's all part of Murky Dismal's dastardly plot to lure and capture Rainbow Brite.
Director: Burt Arnowitz | Stars: Kevin Osgood, Danielle Decker, Sandra Conally, Rosemarie Thornton
Votes: 57
46. Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, History
The history of traffic safety educational films and their notoriously lurid content.
Director: Bret Wood | Stars: Richard Anderson, Sonny Bono, John F. Butler, Hans Conried
Votes: 219 | Gross: $0.00M
47. The Last Prom (1980)
24 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Driver education film depicting the dangers of teen-age drunk driving, wherein a prom date ends tragically.
Director: Gene McPherson | Stars: Sheelagh Bevan, Jamie Bozian, Mary LeClair, Ron Bohmer
Votes: 125
48. Stay Alert... Stay Safe (1994 Video)
7 min | Animation, Short, Family
Bert and Gert are two twin rabbits who teach kids a series of important lessons, including: Never talk to strangers, let your parents know where you are and when you're coming home, and ... See full summary »
49. Trip to Where? (1968)
49 min | Drama
Three sailors are talked into trying LSD and marijuana--which, this film implies, are basically the same thing--and the effects of the drugs endanger the lives of their fellow sailors aboard ship.
Stars: John Beck, Tim Knight, Timothy Leary, Richard Lynch
Votes: 29
50. Drug Stories! (2018)
TV-14 | 80 min | Documentary
A compilation of educational anti-drug and anti-alcohol short films from the 1960s and the 1970s.
Votes: 127