The First Grader

The First Grader(2010)

"It's never too late to dream."

7.1/10
98 votes
103 minSeptember 12, 2010

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The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

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