15岁的少年米夏·伯格（大卫·克劳斯 David Kross 饰）偶遇36岁的中年神秘女列车售票员汉娜（凯特·温丝莱特 Kate Winslet 饰），后来两个发展出一段秘密的情人关系。汉娜最喜欢躺在米夏怀里听米夏为他读书，她总是沉浸在那朗朗的读书声中。年轻的米夏沉溺于这种关系不能自拔的同时，却发现他自己根本不了解汉娜。忽然有一天，这个神秘女人不告而别，米夏在短暂的迷惑和悲伤之后，开始了新的生活。二战虽然结束了，但德国对于纳粹战犯的审判还在继续。成为法律学校的实习生的米夏，在一次旁听对纳粹战犯的审判过程中，竟然发现一个熟悉的身影。虽然已经事隔8年，但米夏还是一眼便认出那就是消失8年的汉娜。而这一次，她坐上了纳粹战犯审判法庭的被告席，这个神秘女人的往事在案件的审理过程中逐渐清晰。然而，米夏却发现了一个汉娜宁愿搭上性命也要隐藏秘密。汉娜最终被判终身监禁，而此时米夏（拉尔夫·费因斯 Ralph Fiennes 饰）与汉娜的故事还在继续。
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
制作电影那时，巴勒斯是美国最有名的作家——至少在住在城里那些人之中，他们在朋克摇滚俱乐部度过夜晚，是兰波、J.·G.·巴拉德和地下丝绒的粉丝，与毒品不仅仅有一面之交。我们自然而然成了受众，在大城市的艺术影院看电影，在店里租录像带。我们中写作的人曾经模仿巴勒斯的风格，虽然没人能真正捕捉到他的权威，或是他那似乎能追溯到拓荒者时期科内斯托加式的平淡语调。他看上去像是难以接近的高贵、严厉，然而他生活在我们之中，甚至时常在朋克摇滚俱乐部现身。现在他死了将近二十年，几乎电影中每个人都死了（除了焦尔诺、帕蒂·史密斯和巴勒斯的助手兼执行人詹姆斯·高尔霍茨）。霍华德·布鲁克纳也死了，1989年34岁在导演那部鲁尼恩《百老汇的最后一夜》时被艾滋病杀死。《巴勒斯：一部电影》反映了一段特定时间（七十年代的混沌与里根时期的癫狂幻想之间），简单地说这段时间内看上去什么都会发生——巴勒斯作为突出的公众人物的想法成为满含希望的方向的一个路标。现在，经历了种种灾难，这部电影成为一幅描绘一名融入了作品、自己成为最复杂持久角色的作家的三维画像，他将一直看上去像是来自未来，正如他从几个重叠的过去致敬一样。
John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the true meaning of freedom.
A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.
Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his master's wife. Using only the air as their blackboard, this random act of kindness provided an education that paved the way from slavery to freedom.
Too often, if a child is illiterate at the end of third grade, they will fall behind forever. By nine years old, many children are already SENTENCED to the cycles of poverty, prison, and addiction that have devastated generations before them. Our story begins with a heartbreaking look at adults who never learned to read and ends with the children who still have a chance.
In Turkey far too many women are still unable to read and write, and all they see in their life span is being forced into early marriage and relegation to the home, where they look after extended families and more children than they can feed. The girls are portrayed in their homes, together with the strongest supporters of their emancipation through education: their mothers. Girls of Hope portrays five girls who struggle for their education and, despite all the difficulties, try to hold on to their hope for a better future.
Jay Blades, presenter of The Repair Shop, has decided it’s finally time to learn to read. He has been told he has the reading age of an 11-year-old. Throughout his life he has found ways of avoiding the written word, and this film digs deep into how this has shaped him.
The raw, heartfelt and often funny journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they discover the transformative power of reading and writing for the first time.
Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. MAESTRA explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.
A retired high school English teacher is confronted by a former student who failed her class 15 years prior. He then involves her in a feature-length presentation on Moby-Dick and the science of reading.
The Truth About Reading looks at the illiteracy problem in America, highlighting people who learned to read as adults, and sharing proposed solutions for working towards a future where every child learns to read proficiently.
A library on four legs, the world's only existing Camel Library is located in Northern Kenya. As they pass antelopes and giraffes, the heavily loadedcaravan of camels are routinely carrying books through the rough savannah.In the villages with their houses of mud and dung these tenacious desert ships are wishfully awaited by the people of the nomadic Muslim tribes. Under the shade of acacia trees, especially the children are excitedly turning pages of school books, novels and comics. However, 400 kilometers outside of the capital city of Nairobi the local librarians are still struggling with illiteracy, old traditions, insufficient funds, blistering sun and - stubborn camels... This is the story about the Camel Library, about inquisitive children, about the origins of a book and about a camel and an exceptional librarian in the heart of Africa within the UNESCO-world decade of alphabetization.