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Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the t...

A library on four legs, the world's only existing Camel Library is located in Northern Kenya. As the...

The Truth About Reading looks at the illiteracy problem in America, highlighting people who learned...

The raw, heartfelt and often funny journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they d...

A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.

In Turkey far too many women are still unable to read and write, and all they see in their life span...

Jay Blades, presenter of The Repair Shop, has decided it’s finally time to learn to read. He has bee...

A retired high school English teacher is confronted by a former student who failed her class 15 year...

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemp...

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with...

Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his mast...

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remot...

The orphanage's pupils are sent by the district Komsomol committee to eliminate illiteracy in the re...

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two...

Jesse Hallum sells the family farm to see that his daughter receives the medical care she needs at t...

An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Ji...

A functionally illiterate factory foreman (Dennis Weaver) loses his job after refusing a promotion t...

John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young s...

A soul-searching portrait of four inmates in a Norwegian prison.