Refugee Week
This list of films is for teachers to use to mark Refugee Week, and for stimulus to discuss the hardships and resilience of refugees around the globe.
Paddington (PG)
Director: Paul King. UK. 2015. 95 mins.
A young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realise that city life is not all he had imagined - until he meets the kind Brown family, who read the label around his neck ('Please look after this bear. Thank you.') and offer him a temporary haven.
Suitability: KS1, KS2 | Subjects: History, English
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Casablanca (U)
Director: Michael Curtiz. USA. 1942. 98 mins.
Rick Blaine, who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco, discovers his old flame Ilsa is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo. Laszlo is a resistance leader from Czechoslovakia, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country - but will he?
Suitability: KS2, KS3 | Subjects: History, English
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
An American Tale (U)
Director: Don Bluth. USA. 1986. 77 mins.
Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he'd be rid off.
Suitability: KS1, KS2 | Subjects: History, English
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).