The Ruling Classroom
The Ruling Classroom
1980, English. Directed by Peter Bull & Alex Gibney.
The Ruling Classroom documents a social studies experiment played out by seventh graders in Mill Valley, California. The students reorganized their classroom as an imaginary country until the principal staged a coup and brought the classroom republic to a halt. The educational experiment was the brainchild of teacher George Muldoon, who suspended the normal social studies curriculum in order to let his students learn about government by constructing it for themselves.
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- 0h 57m
- Post-credits
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- English
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- 1 January 1980
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The Ruling Classroom isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1980. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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The Ruling Classroom (1980) was directed by Peter Bull and Alex Gibney.