‘Waiting for Superman’: The Sad State of Our Schools

Be prepared for director Guggenheim’s stinging indictment of the U.S. educational system.

American educator and author Geoffrey Canada (R), in "Waiting for 'Superman.'"Paramount Pictures

NR | 1h 42m | Documentary, Education | 2010

At the beginning of “Waiting for ‘Superman,’” (“Superman”) co-writer, director, and narrator Davis Guggenheim drives by three Los Angeles public schools and points out that while he could enroll his own children in any one of them, he and his actress wife, Elisabeth Shue, will instead choose a private school.