The First Grader (2010)
The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Keywords: tmdb.education, tmdb.village, tmdb.kenya, tmdb.teacher, tmdb.school, imdb.briton, imdb.insult + 187 more, imdb.planting-a-seed, imdb.prisoner-of-war-camp, imdb.television-announcer, imdb.television-camera, imdb.alphabet, imdb.toe-chopped-off, imdb.number, imdb.murder-of-a-child, imdb.mau-mau, imdb.sprayed-with-a-hose, imdb.adult-education, imdb.intergenerational-friendship, imdb.hard-of-hearing, imdb.dragging-someone, imdb.tutoring, imdb.shot-in-the-head, imdb.role-model, imdb.teaching-assistant, imdb.burning-hut, tmdb.uniform, imdb.elementary-school, imdb.schoolteacher, imdb.president, imdb.kick, imdb.shoe, imdb.murder, imdb.letter, imdb.africa, imdb.cell-phone, imdb.freedom, imdb.village, imdb.education, imdb.1950s, imdb.father-daughter-relationship, imdb.mother-daughter-relationship, imdb.father-son-relationship, imdb.mother-son-relationship, imdb.gun, imdb.soldier, imdb.employer-employee-relationship, imdb.newspaper, imdb.handshake, imdb.fire, imdb.whipping, mdblist.fresh, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, imdb.old-man, tmdb.based-on-true-story, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.hung-upside-down, imdb.rear-nudity, imdb.ageism, imdb.year-1963, imdb.board-of-education, imdb.hoe, imdb.barging-into-a-meeting, imdb.receptionist, imdb.tea, imdb.home-invasion, imdb.revolutionary, imdb.raid, imdb.race-relations, imdb.racism, imdb.prisoner, imdb.military-uniform, imdb.massacre, imdb.imperialism, imdb.colonialism, imdb.mob-violence, imdb.underwear, imdb.sleep, imdb.chaining-a-gate, imdb.gate, imdb.barbed-wire, imdb.throwing-a-rock, imdb.united-nations, imdb.what-happened-to-epilogue, imdb.reference-to-mwalimu-baruti, imdb.detention-camp, imdb.liberation, imdb.demonstration, imdb.protest, imdb.turkana-kenya, imdb.reference-to-michelle-obama, imdb.letter-from-president, imdb.hero, imdb.cruelty, imdb.telephone-hangup, imdb.threatening-telephone-call, imdb.false-accusation-of-adultery, imdb.false-accusation, imdb.coercion, imdb.back-scar, imdb.smashing-someone-s-skull, imdb.undressing, imdb.homecoming, imdb.bracelet, imdb.van, imdb.ululating, imdb.billboard, imdb.street-life, imdb.reading-aloud, imdb.dancing, imdb.dancer, imdb.song, imdb.singing, imdb.singer, imdb.kiss, imdb.prisoner-of-war, imdb.old-man-little-girl-relationship, imdb.kenyan-government, imdb.adult-school, imdb.hit-with-a-stick, imdb.threat, imdb.politician, imdb.fight-for-freedom, imdb.tribalism, imdb.tribe, imdb.pregnancy, imdb.cat, imdb.rain, imdb.prejudice, imdb.blackboard, imdb.chalk, imdb.limp, imdb.photographer, imdb.camera, imdb.beating, imdb.goat, imdb.oath, imdb.bus, imdb.blood, imdb.running, imdb.kenyan-flag, imdb.sharpening-a-pencil, imdb.execution, imdb.interrogation, imdb.torture, imdb.death-of-wife, imdb.death, imdb.crying-baby, imdb.baby, imdb.money, imdb.apology, imdb.masai, imdb.british-colonialism, imdb.telephone-call, imdb.chanting, imdb.clapping, imdb.husband-wife-relationship, imdb.crying, imdb.violence, imdb.flash-forward, imdb.exercise-book, imdb.pencil, imdb.radio-news, imdb.radio-announcer, imdb.microphone, imdb.radio-station, imdb.walking-stick, imdb.machete, imdb.learning-to-write, imdb.subtitled-scene, imdb.swahili, imdb.kikuyu, imdb.nairobi-kenya, imdb.photograph, imdb.memory, imdb.flashback, imdb.little-girl, imdb.little-boy, imdb.teacher-student-relationship, imdb.school-uniform, imdb.classroom, imdb.primary-school, imdb.reading, imdb.learning-to-read, imdb.illiteracy, imdb.literacy, imdb.death-of-child, soundmix.dolby-digital, aspectratio.2-35-1, imdb.the-daily-telegraph, imdb.british-broadcasting-corporation, imdb.the-new-york-times, imdb.the-kenyan-times, imdb.los-angeles-times-the-newspaper
Production Companies: Sixth Sense Productions, UK Film Council, Videovision Entertainment, Lipsync Productions, ARTE + 3 more, Big Boy Films, Origin Pictures, BBC Films
Country: Kenya
Production Countries:
United Kingdom,
Kenya,
United States
Languages:
English,
Swahili
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