An unruly bunch of bright funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex sport & a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young & shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks hes a fool. In Alan Bennetts screenplay staff room rivalry & the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history & how you teach it; about education & its purpose. Fox Searchlight Pictures DNA & the BBC have joined forces to bring the National Theatres award-winning production of The History Boys" to the big screen directed by Nicholas Hytner from a script adapted for the screen by Alan Bennett."