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Inspirational instructors When teachers are portrayed in movies, they usually are an asset to those they come in contact with.

'Goodbye, Mr. Chips' (1939)

This is the original inspirational-teacher tale. The film chronicles the 63-year career of a retired schoolmaster named Charles "Chips" Chipping (Robert Donat), who starts his tenure in the late 1880s at England's Brookfield School. Donat won the best actor Oscar for his work in the film, against such competition as Clark Gable's Rhett Butler in "Gone With The Wind."

'The Browning Version' (1951)

The movie showcases Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), an embittered, middle-aged schoolmaster who begins to feel his life has been a failure. He is despised and pitied by both his colleagues and students. The unpopular teacher knows his wife is having an affair with another teacher. The picture is a classic of British realism.

'The Visitor' (2007), left

Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) is a widower and a shy, 60ish economics professor. He travels to New York City, where he finds a young couple living in his apartment. Eventually, he befriends the two illegal aliens living there. The chief pleasure of this heartfelt drama is watching the growth of Vale and seeing him learn the island of solitude is a lonely and cold place.

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