Brooklyn Castle (2012)

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

Genres

Documentary

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Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

Genres

Documentary

Top Billed Cast

John Galvin
Elizabeth Vicary
Rochelle Ballantyne
Pobo Efekoro
Justus Williams

Director

Katie Dellamaggiore

Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318

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Library	Call Number	Availability	Location
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Brooklyn Castle

Alternative Title	Brooklyn Castle
Release Date	October 19, 2012
Original Language	English
Runtime	101
Certification	PG
Popularity Index (TMDB)	1.07
Rating (TMDB)	7.30

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