Levado para um acampamento de formação de deuses, um rapaz de 17 anos que desistiu do internato descobre que é o filho meio-humano de Poseidon e decide embarcar numa viagem pelo país com um sátiro/protetor e a filha de Atena para salvar a mãe raptada, reaver o relâmpago de Zeus e evitar uma guerra entre os deuses.
Com o bombardeamento dos japoneses a Pearl Harbor (EUA), dois amigos, um americano outro inglês, alistando-se na força aérea de cada um dos seus países para participar na 2ª Guerra Mundial. Mas no meio do drama da guerra surge um outro, relacionado com a paixão que ambos desenvolvem pela mesma mulher, no que será um teste sério à sua grande amizade. Este filme é baseado na obra homónima de Randall Wallace.
Filme conta a história de uma criança que sofre com dislexia e custa a ser compreendida. Ishaan Awasthi, de 9 anos, já repetiu uma vez o terceiro período (no sistema educacional indiano) e corre o risco de repetir de novo. As letras dançam em sua frente, como diz, e não consegue acompanhar as aulas nem focar sua atenção. Seu pai acredita apenas na hipótese de falta de disciplina e trata Ishaan com muita rudez e falta de sensibilidade. Após serem chamados na escola para falar com a diretora, o pai do garoto decide levá-lo a um internato, sem que a mãe possa dar opinião alguma. Tal atitude só faz regredir em Ishaan a vontade de aprender e de ser uma criança. Ele visivelmente entra em depressão, sentindo falta da mãe, do irmão mais velho, da vida… e a filosofia do internato é a de disciplinar cavalos selvagens. Inesperadamente, um professor substituto de artes entra em cena e logo percebe que algo de errado estava pairando sobre Ishaan.
Um grupo de desajustados é obrigado a frequentar uma turma de adultos para conseguirem a difícil tarefa de passar no exame final do secundário.
Maggie (Cameron Diaz) e Rose Feller (Toni Collette) são duas irmãs que tem em comum apenas o fato de calçarem o mesmo número. Maggie é festeira, detesta estudar, muda constantemente de emprego e acredita que seu melhor talento é atrair os homens. Já Rose é uma advogada bem-sucedida, que trabalha em um dos maiores escritórios da Filadélfia. Aficcionada pelo trabalho, Rose enfrenta problemas com o peso e sempre se sente desconfortável nas roupas que usa. Maggie e Rose, apesar das diferenças, são grandes amigas. Após uma grande briga, elas decidem viajar juntas com a ajuda de sua avó recém-descoberta, Ella Hirsch (Shirley MacLaine), que acreditavam estar morta.
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.
Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.
A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.
13-year-old Brian has problems reading, which his teachers attribute to laziness. It is later discovered that he has Dyslexia.
How far would a mother go to reverse her child’s fate? Based on writer/director Ann Hu’s story, that’s the question facing Lan (Zhu Zhu), who travels with her 9-year-old daughter Meimei (Harmonie He) from their small town in China to New York City.
A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver.
This film puts you inside the head of a dyslexic child trying to get through the 5th grade in the 1970's.
Does having a learning disability mean that you can’t learn? Eight children prove that the answer is a definitive 'No' in this documentary. Interviews with kids are intercut with scenes of the children engaged in activities that reflect their talents to form a compelling portrait of the ways in which these young people use their strengths to overcome their challenges.
Could dyslexia be a gift? Or can it only ever be a disability? Documentary maker Richard Macer sets off on a road trip with his dyslexic son Arthur to find the answer. En route, they meet Richard Branson and Eddie Izzard, and many other successful dyslexic people. - BBC
A young dyslexic and artistic woman is overcome with despair as she finds herself defined, not by her talents, but by her disabilities.
What is at the bottom of this dark hole, which a child's tear has dug in the sheet of paper? What are these strange hieroglyphs written on this board? It's not easy to be a schoolboy when letters and words get mixed up! It's not easy to make people recognise your different... Underneath it all, there are these assessments! Below fifty, you don't pass! So you have to hang on to stay in the race.
Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.
In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killing two fellow students and wounding 25 others. In this first in-depth television examination of a school shooter, FRONTLINE reveals the intimate inside story of how the “shy and likeable” Kip Kinkel from a solid middle-class family became the boy police call “a cold-hearted killer.”
Inspirational tale set in the late 1940s involving an elderly blind woman with a unique collection of bells in her home and a dyslexic 12-year-old boy who form an offbeat friendship to help each other overcome a disability.
Though up to 20% of students are dyslexic, many pass through school unidentified, misunderstood and performing below their potential. Paradoxically, these disorders are often found in highly intelligent, creative minds, and can also be seen as a gift, because many people with dyslexia naturally think outside the box and see the big picture, finding alternative solutions to problems that others might not see.