Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn Castle (2012)

Released Documentary · 101 min

 

Brooklyn Castle (2012)

Released Documentary · 101 min

 

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

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... see more

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

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... see more

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RUNTIME
N/A min
RELEASED
Oct 19, 2012
COUNTRY
US
LANGUAGE
EN
SPOKEN
English
BUDGET
N/A
REVENUE
$219,407
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