The History Boys
History. It's just one bloody thing after another.
2006 | 109m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Nicholas Hytner |
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| Writer: | Alan Bennett |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 02, 2006 |
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| Director: | Nicholas Hytner |
| Writer: | Alan Bennett |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | becoming an adult, education, exam, northern england, high school, scholarship, oxford, cambridge, yorkshire, based on play or musical, teacher, high school teacher, lgbt, lgbt teen, history teacher, headmaster, boys' school, teachers and students, 1980s, cambridge university, history, gay teenager |
| Production Companies | DNA Films, UK Film Council, National Theatre, BBC Two |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $13,401,952
Budget: $4,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Penelope Wilton | Mrs. Bibby |
| Adrian Scarborough | Wilkes |
| Georgia Taylor | Fiona |
| Patrick Godfrey | Sleeping Clergyman |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Nicholas Hytner | Director |
| Alan Bennett | Screenplay, Author |
| Julia Stannard | Line Producer |
| Justine Luxton | Costume Design |
| Joanne Woollard | Set Decoration |
| John Beard | Production Design |
| Toby Whale | Casting |
| Andrew Dunn | Director of Photography |
| John Wilson | Editor |
| George Fenton | Original Music Composer |
| Rocky Taylor | Stunt Double |
| Mark Milsome | First Assistant "A" Camera |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Nicholas Hytner | Producer |
| Damian Jones | Producer |
| David M. Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Pádraig Cusack | Producer |
| Miles Ketley | Executive Producer |
| Kevin Loader | Producer |
| Charles Moore | Executive Producer |
| Andrew Macdonald | Executive Producer |
| Allon Reich | Executive Producer |
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| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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