The History Boys
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
At a glance
Countries
United Kingdom
Ratings
TMDB users
6.6/10
214 votes
IMDb
6.8/10
Users
Critics
66%Rotten Tomatoes
74Metacritic
Rating consensus
69/100 blend
Sources: TMDB · IMDb · Rotten Tomatoes · Metacritic
Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~69/100 across 4 rating sources. The listed meters mostly agree.
Cast
Richard Griffiths
Hector
Stephen Campbell Moore
Irwin
Dominic Cooper
Dakin
Samuel Barnett
Posner
James Corden
Timms
Russell Tovey
Rudge
Samuel Anderson
Crowther
Jamie Parker
Scripps
Andrew Knott
Lockwood
Sacha Dhawan
Akhtar
Clive Merrison
Headmaster
Frances de la Tour
Mrs. Lintott
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The History Boys (2006)
Nicholas Hytner
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