Music On Film
Browse through our list of some of the best films about music!
School Of Rock (PG)
Director: Richard Linklater. USA. 2003. 108 mins.
When down-and-out rock star Dewey Finn gets fired from his band, he takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. There he meets a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight.
Suitability: KS2, KS3
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Song Of The Sea (PG)
Director: Tomm Moore. UK. 2014. 92 mins.
Saoirse is a child who is the last of the selkies, women in Irish and Scottish legends who transform from seals into people. She escapes from her grandmother's home to journey to the sea and free fairy creatures trapped in the modern world.
Suitability: KS2, KS3
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Fantasia (U)
USA. 1940. 125 mins.
An innovative and revolutionary animated classic from Walt Disney, combining Western classical music masterpieces with imaginative visuals, presented with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The eight animation sequences are colorful, impressive, free-flowing, abstract, and often surrealistic pieces.
Suitability: KS1, KS2
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Fantasia 2000 (U)
USA. 1999. 71 mins.
In this update of Disney's masterpiece film mixture of animation and music, new interpretations of great works of music are presented. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to Beethoveen's Fifth, contuniuing with the story of several lives in 1930's NYC to 'Rhapsody in Blue,' and 'Pomp and Circumstance' starring Donald Duck as a harried assistant to Noah on his Ark.
Suitability: KS1, KS2
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Happy Feet (U)
Director: George Miller. Australia/USA. 2006. 108 mins.
When Mumble is born into a colony of Emperor penguins, he finds himself unable to be accepted by all other penguins, lacking the ability to sing a heartsong. He does however have a talent for tap dance which is derided by his peers and scorned by the penguin elders. After being virtually outcast by his colony he goes in search of the humans in an attempt to reason and communicate with them.
Suitability: KS1, KS2
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).