Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Ahead of the Class
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
2005 · FILM

Ahead of the Class

Directed by
Runtime
94 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

This drama is based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a small-statured Glaswegian headmistress nearing retirement, takes on one final challenge: improving the fortunes of St George's School in northwest London, which was at risk of closure following the infamous murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995. He was killed while intervening in a fight between his pupils and students from a rival school.

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tania ReddinShot by David OddScored by Paul HeardDesigned by Tom Brown

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.