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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play History It&s Just One Thing After Another Starring the original stage cast and based on the play by Alan Bennett The History Boys brings together eight bright funny history students in the north of England in the mid &80s Their Headmaster is obsessed with breaking into the ranks of those schools that regularly send boys up to Oxford and Cambridge and enlists Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) a shrewd newcomer to coach the boys into intellectual shape for the trials ahead Seduced though they are by the exam-busting bag of tricks offered by the temporary supply teacher the boys are torn by their loyalty to the hugely eccentric poetry-spouting English master Hector (Richard
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play History It&s Just One Thing After Another Starring the original stage cast & based on the play by Alan Bennett The History Boys brings together eight bright funny history students in the north of England in the mid &80s Their Headmaster is obsessed with breaking into the ranks of those schools that regularly send boys up to Oxford & Cambridge & enlists Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) a shrewd newcomer to coach the boys into intellectual shape for the trials ahead Seduced though they are by the exam-busting bag of tricks offered by the temporary supply teacher the boys are torn by their loyalty to the hugely eccentric poetry-spouting English master Hector (Richard Griffiths) As they prepare for the daunting admissions process the journey of the History Boys becomes as much about how education works as it is about where education leads Commentary by Director Nicholas Hytner & Writer Alan Bennett Featurette History Boys Around The World The Tour Diaries (14 mins) Featurette Pass It Along The History Boys On Screen (13 mins) Actors Samuel Anderson Jack Bagley Samuel Barnett Stephen Campbell Moore Dominic Cooper James Corden Frances De La Tour Sacha Dhawan Richard Griffiths Robbie Jarvis Andrew Knott Clive Merrison Penelope Wilton & Jamie Parker Director Nicholas Hytner Certificate 15 years & over Year 2006 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English Audio Description Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 43 minutes (approx)

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