The Learning Tree (1969)

Directed by

Gordon Parks

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy named Newt Winger grows up in a small Kansas town during the 1920s. He faces racism, loss, and difficult choices as he moves toward adulthood.

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What happens

The Learning Tree is a 1969 American coming-of-age film written, produced and directed by Gordon Parks, who also scored the film. It depicts the life of Newt Winger, a teenager growing up in Cherokee Flats, Kansas, in the 1920s and chronicles his journey into manhood marked with tragic events. Based on Parks' 1963 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, The Learning Tree was the first film directed by a Black filmmaker for a major American film studio, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. In 1989, The Learning Tree was among the first group of 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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