Percy Jackson är en vanlig 17-åring vars livs ställs på ända när han får reda på att han är halvgud och son till Poseidon – och huvudmisstänkt för stölden på Zeus åskvigg. Samtidigt som han måste komma tillrätta med sina nyvunna krafter måste Percy tillsammans med sina vänner rentvå sitt namn och rädda världen från gudarnas vrede.
Det är tidig söndagsmorgon den 7 december 1941 när de japanska Zeroplanen på låg höjd sveper in över Hawaiis kust. Destinationen är Pearl Harbor, målet att sänka den amerikanska Stillahavsflottan. Överraskningen blir total när planen med förödande kraft går till attack mot den yrvakna flottan, och på några minuter förvandlas idyllen till ett brinnande och exploderande inferno. Desperat försöker piloterna och barndomsvännerna Rafe McMawley och Danny Walker lyfta med sina plan för att gå till motattack. Lika desperat försöker sjuksköterskan som båda är förälskade i, Evelyn Stewart, ta hand om alla skadade - samtidigt som nästa anfallsvåg slår till med full styrka...
Den lilla 8-åriga pojken Ishaan Awasthi har svårt att hänga med i skolan, utan ägnar sig hellre åt att drömma sig bort och njuta av livets under.
Maggie och Rose är systrar men totala motsatser. Maggie är lillasystern som vet hur hon ska få precis allt hon vill - men inte hur hon ska behålla det. Rose är storasystern, ordentlig och ansvarsfull, som vet allt om att vara duktig men inget om att vara lycklig. När Maggie förför Roses pojkvän får Rose nog och kastar ut henne ur sin lägenhet och ur sitt liv. Men när det gäller systrar så är det inte så enkelt att bara klippa banden...
Han visste att det skulle bli tufft att ta examen. Men att sätta sig i skolbänken igen blir hans livs prövning.
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.
A young dyslexic and artistic woman is overcome with despair as she finds herself defined, not by her talents, but by her disabilities.
Does having a learning disability mean that you can’t learn? Eight children prove that the answer is a definitive 'No' in this documentary. Interviews with kids are intercut with scenes of the children engaged in activities that reflect their talents to form a compelling portrait of the ways in which these young people use their strengths to overcome their challenges.
13-year-old Brian has problems reading, which his teachers attribute to laziness. It is later discovered that he has Dyslexia.
A seven year old boy struggles to make sense of words on the page. But when Mike is diagnosed with dyslexia and the teachers continue to fail him, his mother takes matters into her own hands to help her son fulfil his true potential.
Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.
Arlo, a dyslexic actor, seems to be auditioning well. That is until he’s asked to perform a new monologue.
In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killing two fellow students and wounding 25 others. In this first in-depth television examination of a school shooter, FRONTLINE reveals the intimate inside story of how the “shy and likeable” Kip Kinkel from a solid middle-class family became the boy police call “a cold-hearted killer.”
A dyslexic girl seeks to win her distant father’s attention by taking on an ultra-marathon.
Inspirational tale set in the late 1940s involving an elderly blind woman with a unique collection of bells in her home and a dyslexic 12-year-old boy who form an offbeat friendship to help each other overcome a disability.
A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver.
Could dyslexia be a gift? Or can it only ever be a disability? Documentary maker Richard Macer sets off on a road trip with his dyslexic son Arthur to find the answer. En route, they meet Richard Branson and Eddie Izzard, and many other successful dyslexic people. - BBC
How far would a mother go to reverse her child’s fate? Based on writer/director Ann Hu’s story, that’s the question facing Lan (Zhu Zhu), who travels with her 9-year-old daughter Meimei (Harmonie He) from their small town in China to New York City.
This film puts you inside the head of a dyslexic child trying to get through the 5th grade in the 1970's.
What is at the bottom of this dark hole, which a child's tear has dug in the sheet of paper? What are these strange hieroglyphs written on this board? It's not easy to be a schoolboy when letters and words get mixed up! It's not easy to make people recognise your different... Underneath it all, there are these assessments! Below fifty, you don't pass! So you have to hang on to stay in the race.